is fr usb host mode prone to damage from regular usb charging

Alex Osborne ato at meshy.org
Mon Oct 6 14:04:54 CEST 2008


Robin Paulson wrote:
> similarly, if i turn on host mode while it's plugged in, what can happen?
>   
> i can't see anything in the kernel archives, but i'm not sure i'm
> looking in the right place
>
>   
Andy replied:

http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/openmoko-kernel/2008-October/005450.html

So I guess that means something like: we can't be sure but it probably
won't.

I've also briefly (by accident) enabled host mode while on charger or
plugged into the PC and it didn't seem to damage anything.

Cheers,

Alex




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