Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sh...@linux.intel.com> writes:
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 04:43:54PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
>
>> ehci-hcd gets along okay with the restriction that each SG element 
>> except the last has to be a multiple of the maxpacket size.  xhci-hcd 
>> can relax this quite a lot, but not all the way.
>
> What does the EHCI driver do when it receives a SG list from the USB
> networking layer that violates this restriction?

The USB networking layer won't use SG with the EHCI driver.

Commit bcc48f1a7a0d4 introduced no_sg_constraint so that usbnet could
enable SG only for host controllers with no such restrictions. I.e.
currently for xHCI only.


Bjørn
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