[Prism54-devel] Re: RE : Re: USB & al

[Feyd]

On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 18:36:27 +0000
sebastien.b at swissinfo.org wrote:

> >I have been thinking about the prism54 userspace usb driver, so far I only
> >wrote an asynchronous usb api (the libusb is synchronous (and I didn't
>  know
> >that usbfs supports aio) and so it is not very well suited for this task
> >With libusb and polling it would not be probably very
> >usable, but the aio could work pretty well.
> 
> Aren't POSIX threads (libpthread) just fine ? They address both portability
> and synchronous IO problems.

Right, it wouln'd be as nice as a select loop, but it would more resemble
the way it is done in kernel, so it could be even better and backporting
of the results into kernel easier.

Feyd