Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kernel (65 mails)

[Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 09:00:07AM +0100, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 07:11:27 +0100
> H??rsszegi Tibor <Tibor.Harsszegi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I would hardly call these fixes. We just a find a way to vanish/handle
> > our problem. However what we are unsure about is whether our fixes 
> > "fine" enough (i.e. they integrate into the kernel infrastructure 
> > "well"), or is there any other way to do it better (that is why I 
> > was thinking about the USBDEVFS_RESET ioctl()).
>
> Maybe it would be "good enough" to just disconnect ("eject") the device
> from userspace, removing the need for a kernel hack?
> I have no Idea if you can "reconnect" the device without actually
> physically unplugging / replugging it, but maybe Greg knows...

No, you can not reliably do this from software, not all hardware allows
this to happen, sorry.

thanks,

greg k-h
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