Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCH 3/4] usb: add usb_update_pipe()

[Kevin O'Connor]

On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 08:22:57AM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 03:20:22PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > Preparation for better xhci support: allows to notify host controllers
> > instead of going through a free+alloc cycle.

Thinking about this further, can the xhci_alloc_pipe() code just check
if the requested pipe was recently free'd (by scanning the free list)
and then reuse it (by calling xhci_alloc_pipe itself)?  If so, it
wouldn't require changes to the usb.c code and it wouldn't introduce
any leak scenarios.

-Kevin