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Given the new crash-proof video driver architecture since Windows 8 and the variety of USB devices and their associated complexity, I had assumed the USB stack
by cm3 10y ago
Given the new crash-proof video driver architecture since Windows 8 and the variety of USB devices and their associated complexity, I had assumed the USB stack would be equally crash-proof by now. Isn't that the case?
I recall they did a major overhaul like that for audio drivers too.
- vertex-four 10y agoIt's generally pretty "easy" to overhaul the graphics driver layer and get everyone to rewrite their drivers - the graphics card vendors work closely with Microsoft in the first place, and there's only a very small handful of them. USB, not so much.
- digi_owl 10y agoUSB is also a very ambiguous protocol. Observe the amount of problems device suspend on Linux was until someone noticed that the one minute mentioned in the spec was a recommendation rather than a rule.