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Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 00:10:58 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Rus Foster <rghf@fsck.me.uk>
Cc: Dmitri <dmitri@users.sourceforge.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Maybe OT: Unregistering a USB device
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On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 07:27:12AM +0000, Rus Foster wrote:
> On 5 Jan 2003, Dmitri wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 15:09, Rus Foster wrote:
> >
> > Someone else asked this question earlier:
> >
> > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-usb-users&m=104127472526623&w=2
> >
> > Dmitri
> 
> Ah right the problem is that
> a) I still want one of the usb-mass storage devices to still be accessible
> at the same time.
> b) My kernel is monolithic

You can use the USBDEVFS_DISCONNECT ioctl on the usb device node in
usbfs to disconnect the driver from the device.

Hope this helps,

greg k-h
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