On Tuesday 03 May 2005 8:41 am, Doug Maxey wrote:
> >
> >The handoff between EHCI to its companion controller is controlled
> >in the EHCI root hub code, by setting the OWNER bit.  The hardware
> >handles the rest.
> 
> So when the ehci driver is available (loaded), it always takes first
> shot at the ports, correct?

So long as it's bound to the relevant controller, yes.


> >> What type of output would you like to see to show this?  I don't have 
> >> anything captured at the moment, but I should be able to get to a system 
> >> to reproduce this on.
> >
> >I'm not clear what "this" is.  The usual rule of thumb is to enable
> >CONFIG_USB_DEBUG and show the relevant enumeration events, from "dmesg".
> 
> Ok.  I should confess the folks that are seeing the problem at the nonce
> are doing some other "under the covers" things (bus_remove_device())
> before reading the device registers, and seeing unexpected results.

That's not generally a good idea.  Why do that?


> After a while, it appears ehci attempts to take over permanently, 
> and resets the port registers to show the full complement of 15 ports, 
> which are not really available.

As if maybe something's putting the device into some PCI power state
other than D0, for one possibility.

- Dave


> I will get some more detailed information.


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