Just thought I'd forward this in case anyone wants to get any last-minute comments in to Greg ... :)
- Dave -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [linux-usb-devel] What to do with all of the USB UHCI drivers in the kernel? Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 15:31:32 -0700 From: Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ok, now that 2.5.16 is out, we have a total of 4 different USB UHCI controller drivers in the kernel! That's about 3 too many for me :) So what to do? I propose the following: From now until July 1, I want everyone to test out both the uhci-hcd and usb-uhci-hcd drivers on just about every piece of hardware they can find. This includes SMP, UP, preempt kernels, big and little endian machines, and loads of different types of USB devices. (Note, for those who don't realize it, the uhci-hcd driver is based off of the uhci.c driver, and the usb-uhci-hcd driver is based off of the usb-uhci.c driver. Both of these drivers now use the USB HCD interface, hopefully reducing some code complexity and size because of this. So this means that the uhci.c and usb-uhci.c drivers are going to go away, just like the usb-ohci.c driver did in 2.5.16.) Let me (and the linux-usb-devel list) know about any thoughts you have pertaining to liking one of the drivers over the other one. Speed tests, size tests, code pretty tests, comment spelling tests, documentation tests, you name it, I want to know about it. If you don't want your comments to be public, send them to me directly and I will not let anyone else know what you said, but will use the info to try to pick which one should stay. I will be doing the same thing (running speed tests, and hardware tests) and will be publishing those results on the linux-usb-devel list for others to verify. Then, the week of July 1, I will be taking everyone's comments and making a decision about which driver to keep. thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
