Re: [PATCH 03/11] usb: make urb scatter-gather support more generic

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On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 02:48:45PM +0000, David Vrabel wrote:
> The WHCI HCD will also support urbs with scatter-gather lists.  Add a
> usb_bus field to indicated how many sg list elements are supported by
> the HCD.

That's nice.

> Save space in struct urb by adding a URB_HAS_SG flag and reusing
> transfer_buffer to point to a struct sg_table.

That isn't nice.

Why is this necessary?  Are urbs somehow "too big" that it is causing
problems?  This seems to increase complexity for no needed reason.

thanks,

greg k-h
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