netdev - Re: [PATCH RFC 1/1] usb: Tell xhci when usb data might be misaligned

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Message-ID: <20140203175653.GB26115@xanatos>
Date:	Mon, 3 Feb 2014 09:56:53 -0800
From:	Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@...ux.intel.com>
To:	David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
Cc:	'Mark Lord' <mlord@...ox.com>, Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>,
	Bjørn Mork <bjorn@...k.no>,
	"linux-usb@...r.kernel.org" <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
	"Nyman, Mathias" <mathias.nyman@...el.com>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	Freddy Xin <freddy@...x.com.tw>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 1/1] usb: Tell xhci when usb data might be misaligned

On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 09:54:09AM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> From: Mark Lord
> > On 14-02-01 09:18 AM, Ming Lei wrote:
> > >
> > > Even real regressions are easily/often introduced, and we are discussing
> > > how to fix that. I suggest to unset the flag only for the known buggy
> > > controllers.
> > 
> > It is not the controllers that are particularly "buggy" here.
> > But rather the drivers and design of parts of the kernel.
> 
> I suspect that the documentation is describing the actual implementation
> of a specific hardware implementation, not necessarily how the hardware was
> intended to behave.

You are speculating.  Please stop speculating without evidence.  It does
not add to this conversation.

Sarah Sharp
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