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Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> writes:

> On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 01:27:57PM -0700, Philippe Troin wrote:
> > > > BTW, is there any way to restart khubd without rebooting?
> > > 
> > > Nope, sorry.
> > 
> > Are there any technical reasons behind that, or that just that it is
> > not implemented?
> 
> It's a bit hard to restart a kernel thread that is oopsed :)

Yes, but still, with a completely modular USB subsystem, removing all
the modules and reinsrting them (when possible) restarts khubd... So
if it is possible with modules, it ought to be possible with
monolithic USB...

Phil.