On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 01:12:58PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> Greg:
> 
> Any news about the usb_kill_urb() patch (as277c), and its follow-on patch 
> for the hub driver (as278)?

I'm holding off on the kill_urb() patch for 2.6.7.  I like the idea, and
will reconsider it for 2.6.8.  Sound ok?

Everything else I have from you I've either applied, or lost in the mess
somewhere.  If I have lost anything else, please feel free to resend it.

thanks,

greg k-h

> I'm not entirely pleased with the decision to use an 8-bit counter to keep 
> track of URB usage, since it requires an additional spinlock during the 
> submit_urb and giveback_urb paths.  Those could be eliminated if the 
> counter were converted to an atomic_t -- an easy change to make if you 
> think it would be a significant improvement.

I thought we objected to an atomic_t for some reason, but can't remember
it now...  Anyone else?

thanks,

greg k-h


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