Re: USB: serial: add symbol serial driver

From: Alan Cox
Date: Mon Apr 06 2009 - 05:14:28 EST


> > The above is bogus cargo cult programming copied from old drivers and
> > should be removed.
>
> It's all over the usb-serial drivers, should I just remove it from all
> of them?

I think so yes. USB folks used it to avoid overrunning the old flip
buffer system and with proper buffering that isn't needed. Now its only
relevance is if you need very low latency responses which is normally an
application layer choice.

Alan
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