On Fri, May 26, 2000, Matthew Dharm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 12:43:04PM -0400, Johannes Erdfelt wrote:
> > 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.
>
> If we do this, then I have a suggestion.... this is something I've been
> kicking around on linux-scsi, but it's too late to make this change for
> 2.4.0 for them -- it's probably easy for us.
>
> Instead of modprobing "usb_hostcontroller", let's modprobe (in sequence)
> "usb-hostcontroller0" then "usb-hostcontroller1" then "usb-hostcontroller2"
> etc. until we find a name which isn't aliased to anything.
I thought you could alias to 2 modules? If not, this sounds reasonable.
Does modprobe() give you an error if a module wasn't found?
> Yes, in theory
> you'd only have to modprobe 2 for now, but if someone develops a new HC,
> I'd like to leave the door open.
Like EHCI?
JE
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