Re: extended urb information for binary API again
Pete Zaitcev <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.usb.devel |
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| Organization | Red Hat, Inc. |
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On Tue, 08 May 2007 08:48:26 +0200, Paolo Abeni <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 11:19 -0700, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > > I thought we agreed not to do that and only provide the URB data > > for zero copy. > > That will be a better solution, but most unfortunately it does not fit > easily with libpcap design: libpcap is designed to provide a whole frame > in a contiguous buffer (no support for readv-like interface). Oh, crap. I see now what you and Jon were trying to tell me. Maybe the the best solution is to abandon the extended version then, and make a new format, with wire-format byte order and all? This would force libpcap to define yet another link level type, as I understand, but at least zero-copy would work. Greg is going to be unhappy with me, I'm sure, but... -- Pete ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ [email protected] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel