Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 06 Dec 2011 13:01:04 +0100 | From | Andreas Oberritter <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] vtunerc: virtual DVB device - is it ok to NACK driver because of worrying about possible misusage? |
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On 06.12.2011 12:18, Mark Brown wrote: > On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 10:20:03PM +0100, Andreas Oberritter wrote: >> On 05.12.2011 21:55, Alan Cox wrote: >>> The USB case is quite different because your latency is very tightly >>> bounded, your dead device state is rigidly defined, and your loss of >>> device is accurately and immediately signalled. > >>> Quite different. > >> How can usbip work if networking and usb are so different and what's so >> different between vtunerc and usbip, that made it possible to put usbip >> into drivers/staging? > > USB-IP is a hack that will only work well on a tightly bounded set of > networks - if you run it over a lightly loaded local network it can > work adequately. This starts to break down as you vary the network > configuration.
I see. So it has problems that vtunerc doesn't have.
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