On Mon, 30 Jul 2012, Oliver Neukum wrote:

> On Monday 30 July 2012 11:34:10 Lan Tianyu wrote:
> > The hub is always supposed to support reset and its persist is enabled.
> 
> By default, not necessarily always. User space may disable it.

No -- necessarily always.  Userspace cannot disable it.  The persist 
attribute doesn't even exist for hub devices.

> > So hub doesn't need attribute avoid_reset_quirk. The patch is to take
> > attribute avoid_reset_quirk out of usb device's attribute group and
> > add or remove it in the usb_create/remove_sysfs_dev_files() if the device
> > is not a usb hub.
> 
> Why? What is gained doing so? Without further explanation about the need
> or benefit of doing so, why do you want to make hubs different from
> other devices?

They already are different.  The patch does not make the difference any 
bigger.

A hub that needs a firmware update after a reset probably is not worth 
supporting.

Alan Stern

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