linux-kernel - Re: USBIP protocol documentation?

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Message-ID: <20110524212516.GB24134@kroah.com>
Date:	Tue, 24 May 2011 14:25:16 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Németh Márton <nm127@...email.hu>
Cc:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>, Matt Mooney <mfm@...eddisk.com>,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	usbip-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: USBIP protocol documentation?

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:25:18PM +0200, Németh Márton wrote:
> The current protocol implementation is based on top of TCP. In the message
> at http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=122001883519653&w=2 the SCTP is mentioned.
> Have anybody worked on finding out what benefits the SCTP could give to USBIP
> and what would be the drawbacks?

It might not work well on Windows, which the current code does today.

I think that the TCP vs. SCTP is the least of the protocol issues at the
moment, there are lots of other things to work on :)

greg k-h
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