usb module orginization

[John-Mark Gurney]

Bernd Walter wrote this message on Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 00:46 +0200:
> On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 03:35:59PM -0700, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> > Bernd Walter wrote this message on Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 00:15 +0200:
> > > Also it would be a great idea to split the usb module into usb, ehci,
> > > ohci, uhci and maybe uhub.
> > 
> > -current is broken wrt split usb modules.  when you set usbd_enable="YES"
> > in rc.conf, it only loads the usb device.  If you then load ugen or any
> > other device, any existing devices are not reprobed.  You have to unplug
> > and replug the device back in.  So if you broke uhub out, then you'd
> > be in even work trouble since you can't disconnect the internal hub to
> > magicly make it appear.
> 
> uhub support is mandantory - just make it an dependency of usb.
> Naturally usb need to be a dependency to the controller modules.

but usb is a dependancy of uhub.  so, which do you load first? :)

> For the reprobing thing - it's easy to write a userland tool which
> cycles the port to get a reprobe - I thought about writing one since a
> while.

why doesn't usbd do this?  we shouldn't need another program to do
this.

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