Re: USB host drivers test results (2.5.19) and problem.

Stelian Pop (stelian.pop@fr.alcove.com)
Fri, 31 May 2002 17:07:40 +0200


On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 03:54:02PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:

> > 1. Shouldn't the ehci/ohci drivers give some error on loading, since
> > I obviously don't have the hardware ?
>
> How do they know that? You could have it in your hand and be just about to
> insert it.

PCI hotplug ? I fergot about that one...

However, maybe even a hotplug aware driver should print out a message
upon initialization telling 'no hardware found'... It could be useful
when you want to know the difference between:
* bad driver, use another one
* good driver, but doesn't recognize/init the hardware because it's buggy.

Stelian.

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