From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
To: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
USB list <linux-usb@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usbnet: Transfer of maintainership
Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 09:36:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201105040936.09156.oneukum@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110504054511.GA3362@riccoc20.at.omicron.at>
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@users.sourceforge.net>
> > +M: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
>
> 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
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-29 12:19 [PATCH] usbnet: Transfer of maintainership Oliver Neukum
2011-04-29 19:40 ` David Miller
[not found] ` <201104291419.04498.oneukum-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org>
2011-05-04 5:45 ` Richard Cochran
2011-05-04 7:36 ` Oliver Neukum [this message]
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