Re: [linux-usb-devel] disconnect usb device from host without unwiring

2005-01-12 Thread Alan Stern
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Brian Ristuccia wrote: > On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 07:42:57AM -0800, David Brownell wrote: > > > > The current stack doesn't have such a way, but it sounds almost like > > you're describing the ability to selectively power down (and back up) > > a given hub port ... which USB c

Re: [linux-usb-devel] disconnect usb device from host without unwiring

2005-01-12 Thread Brian Ristuccia
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 07:42:57AM -0800, David Brownell wrote: > > The current stack doesn't have such a way, but it sounds almost like > you're describing the ability to selectively power down (and back up) > a given hub port ... which USB certainly allows. > Yes! You've hit the nail right on

Re: [linux-usb-devel] disconnect usb device from host without unwiring

2005-01-12 Thread David Brownell
On Tuesday 11 January 2005 8:01 pm, Brian Ristuccia wrote: > > Is there an existing way for me to programaticly disconnect a device from > the USB bus? Perhaps I'm looking in the wrong places, but I can't find > anything in the linux USB API. > > I can get roughly the behavior I want by installin

[linux-usb-devel] disconnect usb device from host without unwiring

2005-01-11 Thread Brian Ristuccia
I have a particular appliance which I need to communicate with periodicly. Unfortunately, the device's other functions do not work when the USB cable is connected. I'd like to connect it, communicate, kick it off the USB bus, and then later reconnect it to the bus without having to wire and unwire