usbd config file parse behaviour
Bernd Walter
ticso at cicely12.cicely.de
Tue Mar 30 00:38:19 PST 2004
On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 07:44:34PM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <1080613926.1125.6.camel at dirk>
> Sam Lawrance <samuel.lawrance at studentmail.newcastle.edu.au> writes:
> : On Sun, 2004-03-28 at 20:47, Bernd Walter wrote:
> : > On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 01:31:03AM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> : > > Btw, any interest in making it possible to kldload a usb module and
> : > > having device attach to it? Right now the usb code assumes that you
> : > > can unplug the device and replug it back in. I have at least two
> : > > devices on my laptop that can't be removed (bluetooth and memory stick
> : > > reader), so I can't dynamically load drivers for them...
> : >
> : > I'll think about it.
> : > Reprobing is not so much an issue as selecting an interface for it.
> :
> : would this done by filling in uhub_driver_added() to find a better
> : driver match for a device and reattaching?
>
> Yes. Actually, it also requires some changes to newbus as well to
> allow for rebidding of devices. And there's some minor resetting of
> the device that likely needs to happen, but that's lower priority.
Don't forget that we already have a driver for every USB device: ugen(4)
We need a better trigger to reprobe drivers - thats the real problem.
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