On Wed, 5 May 2004, David Brownell wrote:

> Hubs not disabling ports are severely broken; that code should probably
> at least retry a bit before giving up, and giving up should syslog an
> error at a severe level (maybe KERN_ALERT, telling user to unplug the
> device).  Until that problem is resolved, khubd should ignore all
> new devices on that device ... it's no problem if something hangs out
> in USB_STATE_DEFAULT (with address 0), so long as there's only one
> of those per bus.

I'm all in favor of something like this.  Do you have any ideas on how we 
should handle the case where the hub itself was disconnected but we don't 
yet know that it's gone?  We wouldn't want to log a KERN_ALERT message 
when that happens.

Alan Stern



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