On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 11:28:38AM -0700, David Brownell wrote:
> This is another "gadget" driver -- one that lets user mode
> code implement usb device functions, with all the classic
> advantages of such solutions.  There's an example driver
> at the linux-usb "gadget" web page, which uses pthreads
> and handles several control requests in user mode.
> 
> This capability is packaged in the form of a filesystem,
> conventionally mounted at /dev/gadget, with files that the
> user mode driver opens, configures, and then uses with
> normal read() and write() system calls.  Because this
> doesn't require use of ioctl(), such user mode drivers
> can be written in almost any language:  not just C, but
> also Java, Python, Perl, and others -- likely even BASH.
> 
> For now, such user mode gadget drivers are limited to a
> single configuration, although the interfaces in that
> configuration could support multiple altsettings when
> the hardware allows.
> 
> Please merge.  This first patch provides the driver,
> the next one adds kconfig and kbuild support.

Sweet, this is very nice.

Applied, thanks.

greg k-h


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