On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 09:14:52PM +0100, Robert C. Helling wrote: > > > Am 12.03.2015 um 18:40 schrieb Thomas Schrein <[email protected]>: > > > > Which protocol do you recommend us to implement into odico ? > > One idea is UDDF/UDCF, is this a good approach ? > > I agree with Linus that UDDF is the definition of bloated. Otoh it sees to be > the least common divisor if a lot of software in this sector. > > For us probably anything would be ok as long as it's documented with a > preference to something that at least roughly looks like xml. But miika as > our master of xslt is really the person to talk to. But other software might > not care to implement what you need as long as your market share is > infinitesimal. > > Why do you want to implement a serial protocol over USB? I think the > choice of others to present yourself as s flash drive to a usb host is > quite convenient. In the directory listing you can already transmit info > like time of dive and possible duration an max depth. Reading (and > writing configure files) is then a simple matter of reading and writing > files in the file system.
Um, I am NOT a fan of this idea. There are a ton of pitfalls here. FAT was not designed to allow communication between two devices. Maybe I'm tainted by the implementations of that idea that I have seen so far, but this would not be my recommended direction. /D _______________________________________________ subsurface mailing list [email protected] http://lists.subsurface-divelog.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface
