Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2006 16:14:44 +0200 From: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommendations for a serial port card you can actually BUY? Message-ID: <m3ac46yjvv.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org> In-Reply-To: <20061007234746.GA31286@FS.denninger.net> (Karl Denninger's message of "Sat\, 7 Oct 2006 18\:47\:46 -0500") References: <20061005151925.GA1156@FS.denninger.net> <20061005190822.GA15547@icarus.home.lan> <20061005202144.GA11105@FS.denninger.net> <54db43990610051404x1816135ft9740ec29eb5da23@mail.gmail.com> <20061006000909.GB2473@FS.denninger.net> <20061006135019.L76485@server.arg.sj.co.uk> <20061006175313.GA58888@FS.denninger.net> <m38xjs4iq5.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org> <20061007234746.GA31286@FS.denninger.net>
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Karl Denninger <karl@denninger.net> writes: > Uh, if you unplug a working serial device's USB cable, you've got bigger > problems :) So you think? USB is hotplug, and it doesn't have to be a port in use that you're unplugging. > If you plug and unplug ONLY ONE, it should ID in the same place, since > there's a "hole". If you plug / unplug more than one, I can live with the > penalty being a required reboot. After all, these are NOT supposed to be > tampered with while the machine is running! OK, that makes things easier. Perhaps un-/reloading the kernel driver modules (if compiled as module) is sufficient anyways -- the module will probably reprobe everything upon reload; OTOH you can check usbd and devd and things if you can pin devices to certain ordering. -- Matthias Andree
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