linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Increase usbfs bulk buffer size

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Message-ID: <20110912113308.GA32396@kroah.com>
Date:	Mon, 12 Sep 2011 13:33:08 +0200
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Markus Rechberger <mrechberger@...il.com>
Cc:	Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Increase usbfs bulk buffer size

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 12:18:02PM +0200, Markus Rechberger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm a little bit curious why you guys are just ignoring this.

Because you seem to be ignoring the fact that changing this can cause
problems on systems.

And because it really doesn't solve any problems, you are only pushing
the processing to the kernel, when it can be done in userspace just as
easily.

greg k-h
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