>It's a userspace thing, not determined by the kernel. I don't know >what Jon's GUI does when you click on "safely remove the drive". >However the "remove" attribute in sysfs disables the port and tells the >hub driver not to enable it again until a connect change has occurred. Well, I remove the connector, wait a bit and put it back in again and nothing happens. The power was still there, since the little light on the stick was flashing until I pulled it out, but when I put it back in the light did not flash. Nothing happened. Then I pulled it out again and put it in the bottom socket and it worked. >BTW, the hardware in the USB controllers used by most PCs is incapable >of powering off individual ports. Perhaps xHCI offers more control. >A dmesg log with CONFIG_USB_DEBUG enabled would be most helpful. O.K., I felt that coming. I will start the compile going. Fortunately "smaug" (the name of my new four-core, hyperthreaded, 16 GB notebook) does not take long to build a kernel. If it was still back on the 486 I built my first kernel on, or even my seven-year-old X31 Thinkpad, it might be another story. md P.S. "smaug", of course, was the fire-breathing dragon of "The Hobbit" -- 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
