Re: [PATCH 00/10] MA USB drivers cover letter
[with a valid Message-ID] On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 10:00:32AM +0100, Bjørn Mork wrote: > [added linux-...@vger.kernel.org Cc] > > Stephanie Wallick writes: > > > Media Agnostic (MA) USB enables the USB protocol to be used over a wide > > range of physical media. MA USB is a relatively new protocol and is > > currently unsupported in the Linux kernel. This patch set adds the > > following drivers with the following capabilities: > > > > 1) MA USB Host: > > - provides functionality of a USB Host Controller. > > - implements MA USB protocol for a MA USB host. > > - provides MA USB packet transport over TCP > > > > 2) MA USB Device: > > - provides functionality of a USB Device Controller. > > - implements MA USB protocol for a MA USB device. > > - provides MA USB packet transport over TCP > > Nice. But don't you think this deserves the attention of the linux-usb > mailing list? Yes, Greg's attention is of course good to have too :-) > But I believe this is of interest to more people, who might not read > everything on linux-kernel. This is probably more relevant/interesting to the people on linux-usb. Since we were trying to get this driver into staging, we thought linux-kernel was the right place to send the patches. We can send the next set out to linux-usb as well. > Has there been any thought/discussion about the relationship to the > existing usbip drivers, which just moved out of staging? Is a usbip > userspace compatibility layer feasible sometime in the future? That discussion hasn't happened. usbip has a different protocol than MA USB, so much of the code cannot be reused. I just briefly looked into the userspace code for usbip. It looks like the userspace compatibility layer is just a utility for establishing the TCP connection between the host and device & choosing what devices to connect, correct? We have a similar utility (see patch 9/10) which could probably be replaced by the usbip userspace utilities. Thanks, Sean ___ devel mailing list de...@linuxdriverproject.org http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
Re: [PATCH 00/10] MA USB drivers cover letter
On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 10:00:32AM +0100, Bjørn Mork wrote: > [added linux-...@vger.kernel.org Cc] > > Nice. But don't you think this deserves the attention of the linux-usb > mailing list? Yes, Greg's attention is of course good to have too :-) > But I believe this is of interest to more people, who might not read > everything on linux-kernel. This is probably more relevant/interesting to the people on linux-usb. Since we were trying to get this driver into staging, we thought linux-kernel was the right place to send the patches. We can send the next set out to linux-usb as well. > Has there been any thought/discussion about the relationship to the > existing usbip drivers, which just moved out of staging? Is a usbip > userspace compatibility layer feasible sometime in the future? That discussion hasn't happened. usbip has a different protocol than MA USB, so much of the code cannot be reused. I just briefly looked into the userspace code for usbip. It looks like the userspace compatibility layer is just a utility for establishing the TCP connection between the host and device & choosing what devices to connect, correct? We have a similar utility (see patch 9/10) which could probably be replaced by the usbip userspace utilities. > Bjørn > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ ___ devel mailing list de...@linuxdriverproject.org http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
Re: [PATCH 00/10] MA USB drivers cover letter
On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 10:00:32AM +0100, Bjørn Mork wrote: > [added linux-...@vger.kernel.org Cc] > > Nice. But don't you think this deserves the attention of the linux-usb > mailing list? Yes, Greg's attention is of course good to have too :-) > But I believe this is of interest to more people, who might not read > everything on linux-kernel. This is probably more relevant/interesting to the people on linux-usb. Since we were trying to get this driver into staging, we thought linux-kernel was the right place to send the patches. We can send the next set out to linux-usb as well. > Has there been any thought/discussion about the relationship to the > existing usbip drivers, which just moved out of staging? Is a usbip > userspace compatibility layer feasible sometime in the future? That discussion hasn't happened. usbip has a different protocol than MA USB, so much of the code cannot be reused. I just briefly looked into the userspace code for usbip. It looks like the userspace compatibility layer is just a utility for establishing the TCP connection between the host and device & choosing what devices to connect, correct? We have a similar utility (see patch 9/10) which could probably be replaced by the usbip userspace utilities. > Bjørn > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ ___ devel mailing list de...@linuxdriverproject.org http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
Re: [PATCH 00/10] MA USB drivers cover letter
[added linux-...@vger.kernel.org Cc] Stephanie Wallick writes: > Media Agnostic (MA) USB enables the USB protocol to be used over a wide > range of physical media. MA USB is a relatively new protocol and is > currently unsupported in the Linux kernel. This patch set adds the > following drivers with the following capabilities: > > 1) MA USB Host: > - provides functionality of a USB Host Controller. > - implements MA USB protocol for a MA USB host. > - provides MA USB packet transport over TCP > > 2) MA USB Device: > - provides functionality of a USB Device Controller. > - implements MA USB protocol for a MA USB device. > - provides MA USB packet transport over TCP Nice. But don't you think this deserves the attention of the linux-usb mailing list? Yes, Greg's attention is of course good to have too :-) But I believe this is of interest to more people, who might not read everything on linux-kernel. Has there been any thought/discussion about the relationship to the existing usbip drivers, which just moved out of staging? Is a usbip userspace compatibility layer feasible sometime in the future? Bjørn ___ devel mailing list de...@linuxdriverproject.org http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
