From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4f357f27805ff6c11512006c2c00b475@gmx.de> References: <4f357f27805ff6c11512006c2c00b475@gmx.de> Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 21:31:05 +0100 Message-ID: <8ccc8ba40901181231n3f12b793lfdf64d93d838e610@mail.gmail.com> From: Francisco J Ballesteros To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] usb questions Topicbox-Message-UUID: 825590e2-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 We are working on a new usb set of drivers, with hot plugging. usbd is now able to fire up drivers if necessary. Ehci will come later. But don=C2=B4t hold your breath. On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 4:33 AM, wrote: > 1) > Is someone currently working on or has some stuff prepared for EHCI > support for plan9? > > 2) > I found that usbd has sometimes problems with replugging a usb > device. After killing usbd and restrating it anything works fine. But > this has the disadvantage that I loose other previously started usb > drivers like for example a usb/usbaudio running in another window. > > It would be nice if can be made possible that you plug a device in and > usbd activates it and then send a plumbing message. Then some plumber > rules can start up the apropriate fileserver. In the same way 'Local moun= t ...' > works. Here should be a generic rule that these usb driver filesystems ju= st > exit if they encouter problems during device pulling so the whole thing > can start over when the device is plugged in again. Does that make any > sense? > > -- > cinap > > > > >