Re: Question about usb sg handling

Oliver Neukum <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.usb.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Am Dienstag, 19. Juni 2007 schrieb Pete Zaitcev:
> On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 09:26:15 +0200, Oliver Neukum <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > > The main problem is that the URB does not have an s/g list. If it
> > > did, the whole library would be unnecessary. Nonetheless, we still
> > 
> > And that from the man who complained about 24 more bytes in struct urb ;-)
> 
> I think your irony falls flat. Why do you think I haven't submitted
> a patch to add it yet? Of course there's always a tradeoff and linear
> URBs served us well so far. I am merely stating the reason why the
> library exists.

But it hasn't. It can do a lot of things nobody needs and can't do
things like scatter/gather that are needed. It allocates a lot of memory
in every submission. It is too large because of unneeded features.
It works, it doesn't work well.

	Regards
		Oliver

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