On Wed, 18 Jul 2012, Oliver Neukum wrote:

> On Wednesday 18 July 2012 10:21:27 Alan Stern wrote:
> > On Wed, 18 Jul 2012, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> > 
> > > >         I have a question that reset-resume still can not resolve 
> > > > firmware 
> > > > problem? I think this depend on driver. right?
> > > 
> > > Right, but this is not really useful information. We can infer from
> > > a lack of support for reset_resume() that we must not cut power.
> > > The reverse conclusion is invalid, unfortunately.
> > 
> > Why?  If the driver claims to support reset-resume then it must have a
> > way to insure that firmware is reloaded when necessary.
> 
> No, the device may morph. And we have generic drivers (btusb) that
> support devices after another driver (ath3k) has uploaded firmware.

True.  This would be a case where unbinding the driver is the only safe 
way to go.

Alan Stern

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