On 2/13/07, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 12:02:57PM +1100, ronnie sahlberg wrote: > > On 2/13/07, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 11:59:46PM +0000, Phil Endecott wrote: > > >> > Would it be helpful for linux usb device driver developers to have a > > >> > wireshark dissector that could capture and show the USB > > >> > data passed between one such windows client and a windows server for > > >> > USB over IP? > > > > > >What devices have USB data travelling over IP? > > > > http://www.fabulatech.com/usb-over-network.html > > http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/technology-and-science/share-usb-devices-over-ip-network.asp > > http://www.digi.com/pdf/prd_usb_anywhereusb.pdf > > > > There seems to be a pretty large number of different implementations > > around for windows to extend the USB bus across a TCP/IP network. > > As it's just software (with the exception of the digi devices), they are > free to create whatever they want as a protocol. > > I suggest that if someone really wants this kind of feature in Linux,
My suggestion was not to implement support for those products or features in linux. My suggestion was an offer to provide a tool to collect data on how a windows driver talks to a device plugged into a windows box so that linux driver developers could study how and what data is exchanged between driver and device during initialization and management of said device. Please let me try again: Assume very exotic USB device X exists. Assume it would be desireable to be able to use this device with Linux. Assume that unfortunately there exists no documentation on how to initialize or drive device X. This makes it very difficult to write a driver for Linux for this device. Assume that only drivers and applications exist for windows to utilize this device. Would it in this case be useful to have wireshark support one/any of the various USBoverIP implementations that exist for windows. I.e. as a vehicle to collect data on HOW to initialize and communicate with the device by studying how the vendor provided application talks to this device? Or would this be pointless since all linux driver developers already have alternative and better solutions available to collect this information they need in order to write the linux driver? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ [email protected] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
