On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 04:37:11PM +0200, Enrico Mioso wrote: > Hello guys. > I am writing to you all to ask for help and assistance in refactoring the > cdc_ncm driver to support newer devices. > In particular - I would need step-by-step guidance in doing this: or any > other kind of help would be anyway greatly apreciated. > > 1 - What we need: > We would need to refactor the driver to be able to re-order parts of the NCM > package itself. > In particular, being a single NCM frame composed of different parts, we would > need more flexibility in changing their order. Do you have hardware that needs this now? What exactly needs to be done here that currently doesn't work? > 2 - What might be nice > To do so, it would be nice to have the driver queue up frames, sending them > out as needed. this already happens to a certain extent, but the NCM package > is created in the process and updated in the while as I understood the code. > The best thing would be to have the NCM package created only before sending > it out, to achieve for best performance and code readability. Would this really make things faster? > I already contactedprivately some of you to have some more insight on what > needs to be done, and to understand better how to organize the effort. I > unfortunately miss the time to do this right now: and infact I can't even be > sure to be able to do this, due to various problems (my tesis, my life in > general). > But gathering more informations and in general trying to get some help is > the best thing I feel like doing right now. > > The compelling reasons I find for trying to fix the situation are: > 1 - The fact these drivers are used in different products integrating or > interfacing with 3G/4G technologies. Is there hardware that has out-of-tree drivers that implement what you are referring to here? Or does someone just want this to make the hardware work "better"? I think we need more specifics before being able to determine exactly what needs to be done. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
