[linux-usb-devel] Option driver enhancement
Kevin Lloyd
klloyd at sierrawireless.com
Thu Oct 4 16:30:21 UTC 2007
Hi Matthias,
> * There's at least one other driver which has been cloned from
option.c
> in the kernel, as well as at least one which is still based on the
> "standard" usbserial but shouldn't be. It'd make sense to (re-)unify
> these.
I think you might be talking about the sierra.c (which was actually
cloned from the airprime.c driver)?
In a perfect world I agree, it would be great to unify the drivers.
However Sierra is slowly but surely adding more and more proprietary
feature support (e.g., USB vendor specific commands, change in end-point
support, etc.). Granted this still could all be maintained in a single
driver it will likely get _very_ ugly.
This is not to say we shouldn't encourage collaboration with each other,
esp. with throughput issues, those will likely affect all drivers
similarly.
-Kevin
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