On Fri, May 26, 2000, David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I have thought about David's bigger question some although
> > we haven't discussed it (about how to load any/all USB modules
> > automagically).
> > I don't see a solution yet (other than the modules.conf trick).
>
> The closest I came to a solution is just modprobing "usb-ohci"
> and "usb-uhci" ... which autoloads usbcore because of the symbol
> dependencies. (Unless something changed recently enough that I
> missed it ... pre-install Johan mentioned hasn't been needed.)
> A "post-install" (?) can mount usbdevfs, and could also start
> a usb daemon.
>
> I don't quite know what system component would do the modprobes,
> or how to avoid the nasty messages for the HC that doesn't exist.
> And I seem to recall that usbcore stayed loaded even if no HC
> existed, though maybe it autocleans.
I think we should what SCSI does for their host adapter. They modprobe
"scsi_hostadapter" and /etc/conf.modules aliases that to whatever their
host adapter is.
We could modprobe "usb_hostcontroller" and the user can alias that to
uhci or whatever.
JE
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