linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/5] usb_debug: EXPERIMENTAL

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Message-ID: <20090506164235.631230f7@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date:	Wed, 6 May 2009 16:42:35 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@...driver.com>,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] usb_debug: EXPERIMENTAL - poll hcd device to force
 writes

> Or if you do, just bump up the number outstanding urbs that are
> possible.  Or the urb buffer size.

Simply growing the urb size and urb count isn't the right way to
fix this, it just uses more memory to pretend to paper over it.
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