> On 16 Dec 2014, at 02:34, Carl Hoefs <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> At last a ray of hope!  Is there any documentation on USBDeviceReEnumerate() 
> beyond the few lines in IOUSBLib.h?
> -Carl
> 

This was actually the workaround Fernando suggested all the way back in early 
November, the ray of hope has been shining for a while. I wrote a quick and 
dirty piece of code at the time and it worked perfectly once I found the 
device, opened it and called the reenumeration function .. at least for the one 
device I tested it with. 

> 
> On Dec 15, 2014, at 11:15 AM, Fernando Urbina <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Have you guys looked at the USBDeviceReEnumerate() API?  If the composite 
>> driver has grabbed your device, you can cause it to re-enumerate and run the 
>> driver matching process again.  The version of this call in the 10.10 SDK 
>> also has some interesting parameters.
>> 
>> 
>>> On Dec 15, 2014, at 10:46 AM, Carl Hoefs <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Dec 15, 2014, at 1:56 AM, Roland King <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> So the .. good news .. is that my device does exactly what your device 
>>>>> does. I have a number of CDC devices, picked one at random (a Nordic 
>>>>> dongle with embedded Segger which presents as a CDC device + extra 
>>>>> interface). It properly identifies very similarly to yours when plugged 
>>>>> in, on boot however it’s claimed by the composite driver, which seems 
>>>>> pretty wrong as it has a bDeviceClass and bDeviceSubclass which are 
>>>>> non-zero. 
>>>>> 
>>>>> I’ve found no way of forcing the USB subsystem to re-enumerate/re-probe 
>>>>> it. 
>>>>> 
>>>>> So my handwaving guess here is that at-boot the CDC driver isn’t enabled, 
>>>>> or not probed or not used and the device gets claimed by the composite. I 
>>>>> don’t know if that’s because the CDC kext isn’t loaded early or because 
>>>>> the composite driver has changed and is picking up things it shouldn’t 
>>>>> which it didn’t used to, leaving them for later kext loads. 
>>>>> 
>>>>> I’ll file a bug. 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> My bug (18845268) was just closed as a duplicate of 18731228. That bug is 
>>>> currently marked as open. At least that means the issue has been 
>>>> determined to be a bug which may be the first stage to having it fixed one 
>>>> day soon.
>>> 
>>> That’s good to know! Very soon this will become a huge issue for us. Out of 
>>> necessity we're converting over our older 10.8 systems to newer Apple 
>>> hardware that runs only 10.10+. There’s no way to “replug” a USB device 
>>> within a sealed kiosk system, so we’ll be needing either an outright fix or 
>>> a some kind of workaround that can be run after boot (such as a manual bus 
>>> rescan).
>>> -Carl
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Woof,
>> 
>> Nano Urbina
>> Build Slave
>> Razz Software
>> http://www.razzsoftware.com
> 


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