Re: Overly conservative xHCI bandwidth estimation

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On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 11:22:57AM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
>> I assume there's no way I can lie to the chip? Like, if I know for a fact
>> that the card will send less data than the alternate claims (like,
>> I'm using a video mode that will require only a few hundred megabits/second
>> in practice, but even the lowest alternate claims >1 Gbit/sec).
> You can always patch the kernel to do whatever you want.  For instance, 
> you could reduce the bMaxBurst value in the descriptor after the kernel 
> gets it from the card.  Short of that, there is no way to affect the 
> outcome.

I tried, but it didn't work; I bMaxBurst to 4 instead of to 15
(in usb_parse_ss_endpoint_companion). It didn't change the outcome.
Perhaps this doesn't actually change what the xHCI controller sees,
though.

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