Re: USB 3.0 in Linux main stream kernel

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Alan Stern wrote:
> 
> Pushing scatterlists down to the HCD level would involve several
> nontrivial changes to the code.  The issue of the buffer lengths is
> just one of them, although it is perhaps the most vexing.

I don't see where the complexity is.  The HCD simply fills the
hardware's s-g list structures based on the s-g list in the URB.

Obviously, none of the existing HCDs can support s-g lists in this
manner and should continue to only accept URBs without s-g lists.

David
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