On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 05:21:05PM -0700, Elina Pasheva wrote: > Subject: [PATCH 001/001] USB: serial: sierra driver memory reduction > From: Elina Pasheva <epasheva@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > This patch deals with reducing the memory footprint for sierra driver. > This optimization is aimed for embedded software customers. > The interfaces with low memory requirements are assigned less memory > (in number of urbs) thus reducing the overall memory footprint of the driver. You're kidding right? Is a struct urb that big? What is the memory footprints you are dealing with here that this makes a difference? What about performance issues with smaller number of urbs, this change will make some device now go slower, which isn't a nice thing :( > Applying this patch to the current sierra.c driver in the kernel will make > the source identical with the version available from the sierra wireless > knowledgebase website. That is why the version number is being changed > to 1.7.12 as part of this patch. I see a bugfix snuck in here that you should send separately, as it has nothing to do with the memory size changes. 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
