I imagine 'It didn't take long to come up with a stub driver that would power down the controller if nothing was connected at boot, and then wake it up again on a hotplug event.' was an attempt to do exactly that, in order that the Darwin hack need not persist.
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Date: 2012-08-16 08:18 am (UTC)