From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ming Lei Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] net/usb/r815x: replace USB buffer from stack to DMA-able Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 22:29:29 +0800 Message-ID: References: <1375172936-4145-1-git-send-email-hayeswang@realtek.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, nic_swsd@realtek.com To: Hayes Wang Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1375172936-4145-1-git-send-email-hayeswang@realtek.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Hayes Wang wrote: > Allocate the transfer buffer in probe(), and use the buffer for > usb control transfer. Looks this is a usbnet device, so suggest to use usbnet command APIs (usbnet_read_cmd/usbnet_write_cmd) to do that, another advantage is you can avoid to access runtime-suspended device from ethtool. Thanks, -- Ming Lei