Alan, Thanks for the feedback. This probably isn't a question for you, but if someone were to back-merge this functionality, what are the chances the 2.4 kernel maintainers would allow it to be patched into the mainline since it's not a bugfix?
Thanks, Larry On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 12:00, Alan Stern wrote: > 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 -- ___________________________________ Larry Schiefer Senior Software Engineer Intelligraphics, Inc. (214)618-3006 GPG Public Key: AEE81CEE [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intelligraphics.com ------------------------------------------------------- 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 _______________________________________________ linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
