On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, David Brownell wrote:

> +             /* For downstream facing ports (these):  one hub port is put
> +              * into test mode according to USB2 11.24.2.13, then the hub
> +              * must be reset (which for root hub now means rmmod+modprobe,
> +              * or else system reboot).  See EHCI 2.3.9 and 4.14 for info
> +              * about the EHCI-specific stuff.

Actually unbind+rebind would also accomplish a root-hub reset.  This can 
be done easily by the superuser, via sysfs.

Eventually it would be nice to have the HCDs support some reasonable form 
of direct root-hub reset (along the same lines as bus_suspend).  But it's 
a low priority.

Alan Stern


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