On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 07:22:42AM +0300, Pantelis Koukousoulas wrote: > I 'm more of the opinion that we need a generic "vhci" driver that everyone > interested (Xen PvUSB, Virtio usb, usb-ip) can use. That sounds reasonable. > Then, we have various "transports" (one for each of the above) and finally > we drop the backend "stub drivers" alltogether. Again, a good plan. > Instead, we have a small generic driver that arbitrates ports between > kernel and userspace and use usbfs for the rest. If usbfs is broken > in any way, it should be fixed since it is useful for several people, > not just qemu/usbip/xen/whoever. > > That would probably be good even for usbip, since its components > can be reviewed / merged independently without being blocked > by the current file descriptor leaking and protocol-needs-a-rewrite > issues. Sounds good to me, I look forward to your patches :) 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
