[powerstation-owners] USB 2.0

[Josh Boyer]

On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:56:00 -0800
Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 10:11:04PM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:51:30 -0800
> > Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 02:47:48PM -0700, Kai Staats wrote:
> > > > All,
> > > > 
> > > > Please provide the make and model of any/all USB 2.0 cards you have enabled 
> > > > with a PowerStation. We are compiling a list and testing all units in-house.
> > > 
> > > Why should this matter?  Any PCI device should "just work" properly.
> > > It's up to the operating system to handle this, why would the firmware
> > > care what type of PCI device is plugged into the system?
> > > 
> > > What is the real problem here?
> > 
> > It never gets to the OS because the firmware explodes.
> 
> But again, why would the firmware care what type of PCI device is
> attached?  It just needs to tell the OS that a PCI device is attached,
> and here's the resources assigned to it (well, it needs to give the OS a
> way to get the resources assigned to it, in some way.)

You're asking wonderful questions.  I don't have the answers to them at
all, but it basically boils down to:

The firmware is buggy.

> So why would a USB controller be any different from any other type of
> PCI device?  Should we start plugging in all PCI devices that we own to
> see what works and doesn't?

I don't think it does.  I think it has to do with the slots.  So yeah,
that might be helpful to a degree.

josh