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  1. Bug #404185
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Comment 45 for bug 404185

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Thanks a lot, Stuart! I forwarded the information upstream. Unfortunately it does not seem that dmidecode gives us any clue that this particular USB port is internal only.

David had another question:

> It turns out Windows actually powers down the port for this thing -I asked Alan Stern for a similar mechanism in Linux. See
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.usb.general/22706
> I wonder how it works on Windows - e.g. is the SD Reader included in the "Safely Remove Hardware" list? And if so, does it require a reboot if you safely remove the device?
> If not, is this because of a .inf file (moral equivalent to udev rules - at least insofar that these files are used for quirks too) or do they parse the DMI data?

Do you happen to have Windows on this machine as well? If so, would be great if you could test this. If not, don't bother.