EHCI considered harmful?

[Michael Nottebrock]

On Friday, 29. October 2004 17:51, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> At 09:11 AM 29/10/2004, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> >Well, if we would take stability and general usefulness (even more so in
> >comparison to other USB implementations in mind) as the reference point,
> > we would need to disable most of USB. I think enabling ehci in GENERIC
> > would be a good idea, especially since there's no loadable module...
>
> On my Intel 865 box, its pretty easy for me to lock the system up with 2
> different types of USB key drives (Lexar and SANDISK). The system also
> sporadically locks up at boot time, if I have a Keyspan USB-Serial device
> plugged in using EHCI.  For new users, I think its more important that the
> system works.

There are similar issues all over USB in FreeBSD, that's not a good rationale 
to leave ehci out of GENERIC.

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