From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Sid Spry <sid@aeam.us>
Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: USB Hardware Power Control, IOCTL_USB_HUB_CYCLE_PORT Equivalent
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2020 06:50:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200915045000.GA2031@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <33a6b755-f1ba-4c9c-9320-601365afbd67@www.fastmail.com>
On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 09:14:44PM -0500, Sid Spry wrote:
> Hi, after a fair bit of looking I do not see a way to do a hard reset of
> a device. Windows seems to expose some functionality that hints these things
> are possible. Does anyone know if it is and is implemented in the Linux
> drivers?
You can do this from userspace on hardware that supports it by using the
`usbreset` tool that is in the usbutils package.
But as you have found out, this is not a requirement for USB hardware to
support, so not all hubs do support this, sorry.
good luck!
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-15 4:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-15 2:14 USB Hardware Power Control, IOCTL_USB_HUB_CYCLE_PORT Equivalent Sid Spry
2020-09-15 4:50 ` Greg KH [this message]
2020-09-15 14:45 ` Alan Stern
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