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
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