On 2/24/07, Pete Zaitcev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, Jon was hitting some problems with tcpdump and Paolo's libpcap, > so let's keep one more revision stable to help them to figure this out > and bring libpcap into shape. They may yet find a kernel bug too.
I wish the bus numbers were stable across boots. I have five buses and I don't see any pattern in how the bus numbers get assigned. The wireshark packet decoder needs a lot of work. It's not broken, but there are huge amounts of code that need to be written just to finish decoding the low level protocol. The decoder needs to be much further along before I would feel good in saying that the lower layers do what we want. Finishing this is going to need some help from USB experts, there are a lot of obscure things in the USB protocol that I don't know what they do. For example, as far as I can tell there is no info in the capture packet stream describing the attached devices unless I so something like "lsusb -v" while data is being captured. I want to write a decoder for device ID 2001:3c00, a ralink wireless dongle. I can't do this because I can't tell the device ID of the streams being recorded. Somebody (libpcap or the kernel) needs to automatically query the descriptors when the monitor stream is first opened so that the descriptor data will get recorded and I can tell what devices are present. It would be best if this data was the first data recorded in every session. It also needs to track hot plugs. At a minimum I think we should have decoders for HID, audio and mass storage working before committing everything to stone. Those three device classes each use USB quite differently. -- Jon Smirl [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
