>> >> I should have been more specific then. I think I understand, but to >> >> be sure, if I splice a USB cable, power VBUS with an external 5V power >> >> supply, and connect a host and device, the device will work as if the >> >> cable was connected to the host normally? >> > >> > Yes. But why do you want to do this? >> >> >> My application calls for low noise so I'm hoping to feed a clean 5V >> from a battery. > > Okay. Not much you can do about noise on the USB data lines, though. Any ideas for minimizing that are most welcome. - Grant -- 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