linux-kernel - Re: [Linux-usb-users] OHCI root_port

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Message-Id: <20071016.150631.122031826.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:06:31 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	stern@...land.harvard.edu
Cc:	david-b@...bell.net, linux-usb-users@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, greg@...ah.com
Subject: Re: [Linux-usb-users] OHCI root_port_reset() deadly loop...

From: Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 11:23:58 -0400 (EDT)

> Unfortunately that simply isn't possible.  No matter what you do, the 
> user can always unload ehci-hcd and then load it back in again.

Yes we can, by making OHCI and EHCI one module with a top-level
dispatch.  If you enable both OHCI and EHCI, the top-level
module will dispatch the host initializations in the correct order.

This is what I've suggested from the beginning.
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