David Brownell may have more to add, but here's my understanding... On Sat, 8 Jan 2005, Larry Schiefer wrote:
> The Linux USB website had a short description about a change made to the > USB 2.0 core and usb-storage drivers to support large I/O scatter lists > at once. According to the description, this was introduced in 2.5.45 > and is available in the 2.6 kernels. Looking through the latest 2.4 > stable release (2.4.28) as well as the MV Linux kernel shows none of the > scatter-gather changes, so I have the following questions: > > 1. Are there plans to back-port the scatter-gather change to the 2.4 > kernel tree? No. 2.4 development is pretty much over at this point, consisting of almost nothing but bug fixes. > 2. Is there something in the scatter-gather change that restricts it > from being back-ported to the 2.4 kernel? I don't think there are any large barriers. Small quirks in the behavior of the different HCDs might cause minor annoyances. Alan Stern ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt _______________________________________________ [email protected] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
