Am Mittwoch, 4. Mai 2011, 07:45:11 schrieb Richard Cochran: > On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 02:19:04PM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > > USB "USBNET" DRIVER FRAMEWORK > > -M: David Brownell <dbrownell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > +M: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxx> > > Oliver, > > We have been looking at usbnet and a have question. > > Usbnet doesn't use either phylib or napi, but I think the reason is > probably purely historical. Is there a technical reason why phylib or > napi won't work with usbnet devices? Hi, phylib is for historical reasons, although many devices won't give you much access to the phy. NAPI however is technically not very meaningful for USB devices as you cannot poll them. So the central concept behind NAPI doesn't apply. Regards Oliver -- - - - SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstraße 5 90409 Nürnberg Germany - - - -- 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
