Totally outside this discussion, but I couldn't help myself:
On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 10:32:30AM -0700, David Brownell wrote:
> They do make a certain type of "simple" thing get hard
> though -- talking to devices that treat USB exactly like
> a serial cable, sending all data over two bulk (in/out)
> endpoints. Like a socket on the filesystem. In other
> cases, I don't think the ioctls affect complexity much.
In this case, try using the usb-serial driver in "generic" mode. It
provides a nice clean tty interface to a device for just this scenario.
There are a bunch of people out there using the driver in this mode for
the very reason that the usbdevfs isn't working well for this case yet.
greg k-h
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