> > 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.

Not that I've had occasion yet to look at that code, but why
shouldn't the PCI code just directly modprobe the right driver?

After all, the OHCI and UHCI (and EHCI :-) controllers will
have different PCI identifiers.

- Dave





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