Re: [PATCH 00/11] Add NVIDIA LSTP USB adapter drivers

[Jeremy Kerr]

Hi Greg,

> I haven't read all of OBMF, as obviously that isn't what is being
> proposed here, I was just complaining about the madness of attempting to
> create a device tree representation for a single USB device that wanted
> to be carved up into different virtual devices because no one decided to
> learn from history.
> 
> I have other objections about OBMF-ICP, but that's not what this thread
> is about, sorry.  Please propose your own patch series for that and I'll
> be glad to criticize it there.

OK, fair enough - I'll defer this for an OBMF-ICP submission, rather
than piling it on to this LSTP thread.
 
> > With OBMF-ICP's super-minimal core protocol, and the use-case
> > appropriate channels, seems like a suitable approach to me.
> > 
> > The USB-IF has a class ID allocated for OBMF-ICP interface descriptors,
> > with the intention that we have multiple vendor implementations of the
> > common protocol; we would like Linux to be one of those.
> 
> It's always fun to make a new spec and protocol,

We seem to have different definitions of "fun" :D

Thanks for the discussion so far, I'll follow up again when we have a
series to propose. That shouldn't be too long.

Cheers,


Jeremy