On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 07:56:03PM -0800, bruce m beach wrote: > I believe I can change the Device descriptors in firmware, > upload the new firmware and reboot the stick but wouldn't > the usb subsystem have the old device descriptor from the > previous hotplug/system boot? Nope, the kernel reads the descriptor from the device when it is connected, you can check this yourself by doing 'lsusb -v' when it is plugged in. > If so then somehow I need to to tell the usb subsystem to re-request > the device descriptor. kernel calls are okay. Any thoughts? No need to do anything in the kernel, all should be fine as long as your firmware is correct. hope this helps, greg k-h -- 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