> Not quite a fix however the following patches fixes disconnect /reconnect 
 > problems with my USB mouse and the 3com USB modem .  This is a 
 > bandage please don't commit is just that right if I diconnect my usb
 > modem or usb mouse my system panics hence the following simple patch.

That looks like a proper hack. I'll have to sort out something more
reliable than that :-) 


 > Disconnected and reconnected my mouse several times and got no
 > panic plus every time someone calls here the USB modem does
 > not crash my system 8)

:-) You can quitely answer the phone while your system is doing an fsck
of a 18Gb disk that is 80% full...

 > One thing though  someone ought to fix moused so that if
 > it is talking to a usb mouse which gets disconnected and
 > then reconnected to enable again the mouse. I managed
 > to get back my mouse operational by sending a "HUP"
 > signal to moused.

One of the things we might to have a daemon do.  Another option would be
to just reconnect the mouse to the same open file descriptor, but I
don't know whether this is possible. 



The following is no longer necessary (I think). I fixed that yesterday.

diff -r -c usb/usb_port.h usb.new/usb_port.h
*** usb/usb_port.h      Wed Apr 21 15:33:44 1999
--- usb.new/usb_port.h  Wed Apr 21 18:29:20 1999
***************
*** 202,208 ****
                ((dev)->softc = device_get_softc(bdev)) : 0)
  
  /* conversion from one type of queue to the other */
! #define SIMPLEQ_REMOVE_HEAD   STAILQ_REMOVE_HEAD
  #define SIMPLEQ_INSERT_HEAD   STAILQ_INSERT_HEAD
  #define SIMPLEQ_INSERT_TAIL   STAILQ_INSERT_TAIL
  #define SIMPLEQ_NEXT          STAILQ_NEXT
--- 202,216 ----
                ((dev)->softc = device_get_softc(bdev)) : 0)
  
  /* conversion from one type of queue to the other */
! /* #define SIMPLEQ_REMOVE_HEAD        STAILQ_REMOVE_HEAD */
! #define SIMPLEQ_REMOVE_HEAD(head, field) do {
\
!         if ((head)->stqh_first != NULL ) {
\
!       if (((head)->stqh_first =
\
!            (head)->stqh_first->field.stqe_next) == NULL)
\
!               (head)->stqh_last = &(head)->stqh_first;
\
!          }
\
! } while (0)
! 
  #define SIMPLEQ_INSERT_HEAD   STAILQ_INSERT_HEAD
  #define SIMPLEQ_INSERT_TAIL   STAILQ_INSERT_TAIL
  #define SIMPLEQ_NEXT          STAILQ_NEXT

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