Re: [PATCH/RFC 5/5] usb: Add support for streams alloc/dealloc to devio.c

Greg KH
2011-06-16T18:22:55Z

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 07:28:40PM +0300, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 04:31:07PM +0300, Tatyana Brokhman wrote:
> > Allow user space applications such as LIBUSB, to request
> > streams alloc/dealloc from HCD that implements XHCI.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Amit Blay <ablay@qualcomm.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Tatyana Brokhman <tlinder@codeaurora.org>
>
> other than what Alan said, this needs major splitting. This patch is too
> big. First we need to discuss the ABI details with the guys at
> libusb-devel, then we implement.

No, we don't break the abi, but rather, create a new one for streams,
and then we can work on adding them to libusb, which should be quite
easy when done.

thanks,

greg k-h