Re: [PATCH] usb: host: focus the development community's efforts

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On Fri, 1 Apr 2016, Felipe Balbi wrote:

> Linux has been growing larger and adopting more and
> more users. In order to streamline the development
> process, I propose that we focus USB efforts on XHCI
> alone, which is the HCD of the future.
> 
> Anybody still using non-XHCI USB Host Controllers
> should either buy an XHCI PCIe card to talk to their
> HW designers to upgrade their SoC.
> 
> Note that because of this patch and the process
> improvements it will give us, the community can
> focus on more interesting ideas like exposing the
> new leftpad() system call [1] over XHCI.
> 
> [1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-api&m=145946363603177&w=2
> 
> Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <felipe.balbi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Ah, what a relief!  Since you are removing all the drivers that I am
the maintainer for, I can now leave the kernel development community
and retire, rich and happy.  Thank you.  :-)

Alan Stern

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