This is a rediff against CVS of the hub patch. It implements changes to allow dynamic size for ports > 7 (the hub uses 8 ports so we run into problems). The FreeBSD workaround as mentioned in the patch is best explained here: http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/source/dev/usb/uhub.c#L83 uhub only allocates 1 byte for a hub that is currently returning 2 bytes (8 ports). I've submitted a patch to their bug repository (not yet accepted) but it's still good to have the older guests working once they do apply it. NAK is set to return on no change in hub or port status for the status change endpoint. The specification and diagrams I've seen indicate this is correct. It may be a nuissance to flood the log with NAKs, but I believe this can be filtered out by developers quite easily. There are also seems to be noticeable effects which occur when the hub doesn't do this. A very minor one is that win2k polls for port 9 port status on an 8 port hub (perhaps to check sanity of hub): frame 1505: pid=SETUP addr=0x02 ep=0 len=8 data_out= a3 00 00 00 09 00 04 00 ret=-3