On 07/06/11 at 09:27pm, Mark Kamichoff wrote: > Is there some alternate way of cutting the power to a USB device > temporarily in order to reset it? Maybe some userland application that > I'm not aware of? The drivers for a given device are responsible for initializing that device, so rmmod && modprobe should do it. If not, you could reset the USB stack by doing the same to ehci_hcd as a last ditch measure. The reason for the kernel change IIRC is that modern hardware actually *cannot* poweroff a USB port or bus. -- Liam
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