Re: USB extension (repeater) cable

[H. Peter Anvin]

Udo van den Heuvel wrote:
> > Actually, what it looks like is even simpler.  The extension cable
> > contains a four-port hub chip (which is the most common commodity chip)
> > and haven't bothered changing the descriptor to tell the computer only
> > one port is actually active.  So only one port can be activated, and the
> > others are stubbed out in some evil way.  In that case, it should be
> > noisy but harmless.
>
> I will do some more testing then.
> Is there a way to get rid of the messages?

No, but you don't have to care about them.

	-hpa
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