On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 5:27 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Greg, >> >> Sorry, I don't think it is fair to users to force them to re-compile >> their kernel to get their device to work. > > I totally agree. > >> Granted, I'm new to USB >> development, but the rate of reports of endpoint devices that mess up >> and require quirks in the hcd-driver or usb-core seems un-ending to >> me. So, I don't think it is fair to expect that the tide of quirky >> devices will be stemmed in any reasonable amount of time. Having a >> "works with noxhci_port_switch" report from users is good data (hmm, I >> think a printk to tell users to file a report upstream if the option >> resolves their issue is needed). > > How about just adding a debugfs file instead? That way, once you fix > this, we can then remove it and no one will care. The only thing stopping me from saying "deal." is that this darn things is presently a pci quirk. So it happens well before the user has a chance to manually override it with a debugfs file. Let me look into delaying the quirk until the driver loads, because ideally the right interface for this is "blacklist xhci_hcd" in /etc/modprobe.conf. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html