On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 18:15 +0100, Max Vozeler wrote: > Package: linux-2.6 > Severity: wishlist > > Please consider including the USB/IP drivers from the > staging directory: > > CONFIG_USB_IP_COMMON=m > CONFIG_USB_IP_VHCI_HCD=m > CONFIG_USB_IP_HOST=m > > As I understand, the drivers remain in staging not so much > because of quality issues but due to discussions about the > userspace API, which may still change.
The implementation is questionable too. > The only users of the API which exist today are the usbip > userspace tools through libusbip0. It should be possible to > adapt those if/when the API changes. > > If these modules were provided in linux-2.6, we could drop > the usbip-source module package. Given that this is not needed for hardware support, I would like to see a good reason for including it. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings friends: People who know you well, but like you anyway.
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