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From: Thomas Sailer <sailer@scs.ch>
To: jcwren@jcwren.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: USBDEVFS_URB_TYPE_INTERRUPT
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 11:01:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B1DF17C.124B1135@scs.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <NDBBKBJHGFJMEMHPOPEGGEICCIAA.jcwren@jcwren.com>

John Chris Wren schrieb:

>         I don't really want to write a full-up kernel mode driver for this device,
> but interrupt type messages are the preferred method for communicating,
> since once a message needs to be sent, it should be timely (whereas control
> messages could be delayed a significant amount on a busy USB channel).

If you critically depend on tight timing you'll need a kernel driver
anyway, as your usermode task might be delayed on a busy machine too.
Otherwise you can use bulk ins timed from userspace

Tom

  reply	other threads:[~2001-06-06  9:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-06-06  5:54 USBDEVFS_URB_TYPE_INTERRUPT John Chris Wren
2001-06-06  9:01 ` Thomas Sailer [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-06-06  5:31 USBDEVFS_URB_TYPE_INTERRUPT John Chris Wren
2001-06-06  5:36 ` USBDEVFS_URB_TYPE_INTERRUPT Greg KH

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