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

From: Alan Stern
Date: Fri Jun 17 2011 - 10:35:40 EST


On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 ablay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> My name is Amit Blay, I'm working with Tatyana Brokhman, I originally
> created this patch. I want to make sure I understand the solution:
>
> We will create a new IOCTL, i.e., USBDEVFS_SUBMITURB_SS. This IOCTL will
> pass new URB structure, usbdevfs_urb_ss, which will hold the "legacy" URB
> and in addition the stream_id. libusb will be able to use the new ABI
> whenever SuperSpeed streams are required.
>
> Is this correct?

This probably should be USBDEVFS_SUBMITURB_STREAM, since it is necesary
only for URBs that use bulk streaming rather than for all SuperSpeed
URBs.

Alan Stern

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