Re: [RFC v3] Intel xhci: Support EHCI/xHCI port switching.

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On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:40:50AM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Fri, 27 May 2011, Sarah Sharp wrote:
> 
> > We could just write all ones to the switchover ports, which avoids BIOS
> > writers all together and assumes the non-working USB 2.0 device under
> > xHCI is a rare case, which it should be.
> 
> That's probably the best idea.  For the rare case where somebody really
> does want to connect a device to the EHCI controller, you could add a
> "companion" sysfs attribute file to xhci-hcd for runtime control, like
> ehci-hcd's "companion" attribute.

And it should switch all the ports over to EHCI?  Kind of harsh, but
it's probably simplest.

Sarah Sharp
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