On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 08:32:10PM +0100, Bjørn Mork wrote: > Alan Stern <[email protected]> writes: > > > I have written a program (for Linux only; it doesn't use libusb) that > > issues a reset to a single device: > > > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-usb&m=126944503308931&w=2 > > > > You can use this to reset each of the 10-port hubs in turn. Or even to > > reset the 5-port hub. > > This is a very useful tool in all it's simple elegance. For all us who > never would have guessed that there was such an ioctl... > > I saved a copy when you first posted it and have used it on quite a few > occasions. Maybe the tool should be added to the usbutils collection so > it could reach a somewhat wider audience? Yes, I know the usecases are > all weird, but that still doesn't mean than everyone with a usecase will > read this list :)
I've considered it in the past, but didn't want to deal with all of the "this doesn't work on my hardware" emails. Maybe if the code prints out a big message when it's run it might help... greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
