RE: Scatter-gather list constraints

From: Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
Date: Wed Jun 25 2008 - 00:09:32 EST


>From: David Vrabel [mailto:david.vrabel@xxxxxxx]
>
>> That would be ideal. However there is no way to pass an S-G list
along
>> with an URB; there's no field for it in the data structure. And none
>> of the existing host controller drivers support such a thing.
>>
>> I suppose we could add a field to struct urb and add a flag
indicating
>> whether the controller driver supports S-G lists.
>
>This is what I was thinking.

That would simplify a *LOT* of WUSB wire-adapter code which now is a
horrible kludge.

-- Inaky

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