Re: What to do with all of the USB UHCI drivers in the kernel ?

Greg KH
2002-05-21T20:00:23Z

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 12:41:39PM -0700, Maksim (Max) Krasnyanskiy wrote:
> Greg,
>
> I'm gonna speak for Bluetooth USB devices.
> I do have bunch of things like Kodak digi camera, Sony DV camcorder, CF
> reader, etc. But they don't
> seem to care much about which HCD is used and work equally well with both
> usb-uhci and uhci drivers.
>
> I used to be a uhci driver fan :). But starting somewhere from 2.4.16 or so
> Bluetooth devices work much better
> with usb-uhci driver (not all devices but most of them). Even thought
> Bluetooth is pretty slow (about 700kbps)
> performance difference is sometimes pretty significant 20-30% (ie usb-uhci
> driver is faster).
>
> So basically I vote for usb-uhci. However some things will have to be
> fixed. We (Bluetooth folks) have couple
> of devices that refuse to work with usb-uhci (I didn't test the latest
> usb-uhci though).

Sorry for the confusion, but both usb-uhci.c and uhci.c will be deleted
anyway :)

I am more interested in usb-uhci-hcd.c and uhci-hcd.c drivers, which both
showed up in 2.5.16. Yes they are based on the previous usb-uhci.c and
uhci.c drivers respectivly, but they are a bit different (they use the
hcd core code which reduces the size of the driver.)

You also might want to check out uhci.c again in 2.4.19-pre. It has had
a lot of previous bugs fixed and works _much_ better for me than before.

thanks,

greg k-h