Re: Question about struct usb_hub

Hi Allan,

let me get this same thread to ask you the following

On 7/3/07, Alan Stern <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, jidong xiao wrote:
>
> > What's the difference between event_bits and change_bits?
> > I just cannot understand why we need two variables.
> >
> >
> >     188 struct usb_hub {
> >     ...
> >     205         unsigned long           event_bits[1];  /* status
> > change bitmask */
> >     206         unsigned long           change_bits[1]; /* ports with
> > logical connect
> >     207                                                         status change */
> >
> > Take following section for example,inside hub_events() sampled from
> > drivers/usb/core/hub.c:
> >
> >    2594                 /* deal with port status changes */
> >    2595                 for (i = 0; i < hub->descriptor->bNbrPorts; i++) {
> >    2596                         connect_change = test_bit(i, hub->change_bits);
> >    2597                         if (!test_and_clear_bit(i+1, hub->event_bits) &&
> >    2598                                         !connect_change)
> >    2599                                 continue;
> >
> > Why do we need to test changes_bits and then test event_bits?
>
> event_bits records which ports have their bits set in the hub's
> interrupt URB.  change_bits records the ports for which we want to
> force a disable and re-enumeration.

How could I force my usb host controller to re-enumerate everything
attached on the bus through userspace?? would it be some sort of
control message???
thanks

>
> Sometimes the core needs to act as though a device has disconnected
> even when it really hasn't.  That's what change_bits is for.
> event_bits, on the other hand, tells us about real connect and
> disconnect events.  So the driver has to check both bit-vectors.
>
> Alan Stern
>
>
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