On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 03:49:23PM GMT, Alex Bennée wrote: > Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> writes: > > > I don't want to loose that clear & easily understood meaning, by overloading > > "deprecated" for scenarios like "it is sometimes better to use a different > > device instead of this one, depending on factors X, Y & Z". > > I agree we shouldn't overload the meaning if deprecated. > > So to this case in point. Is there anything you can do with usb/hub that > you can't do with the newer xhci based one?
Well, it's a hub. You can (virtually) plug it into a usb root port of a ohci/uhci/ehci/xhci host adapter and get 8 more usb ports. Those new ports are usb 1.1 only though, so not very useful in a modern world, except maybe for HID devices which don't need much bandwidth. > Is it backward compatible > enough that an old kernel would work? Or are we talking really old > kernels at this point? Pretty much everything should be able to drive the usb hub. take care, Gerd
