Re: patch to shift memory allocations to usb_alloc_urb()

Greg KH <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.usb.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 09:26:33AM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jun 2007, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > this proved harder than it looks like. I can use cdc-acm over ohci with
> > this patch. So what do you think?
> 
> It tries to do an awful lot all at once.  A good place to start would 
> be to use separate allocation for the Iso packet structures.  This 
> could be a simple standalone change.

Yes please do that, I am tired of doing usb_alloc_urb(0,...) all over
the place for the majority of usb drivers.  Allocating iso structures
should just be a separate function for those small number of drivers
that need those types of packets.

And, as a plus, it let's us break the api again :)

thanks,

greg k-h

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