Hi Greg, On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 7:55 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 05:29:43PM -0400, Maxin B. John wrote: >> Hi Greg, >> >> This driver helps us to control the OWI/Maplin USB Robotic Arm device. >> >> I have tested this driver in my x86 Laptop and it works as expected >> (Some clean-ups and modifications are in the pipeline, though). >> >> After review process and the life in staging,I hope this driver will >> find it's place in "drivers/usb/misc/" :) >> >> The userspace utility program is available from the below URL: >> https://github.com/maxinbjohn/robotic_arm_driver >> >> OWI/Maplin USB Robotic arm is available from: >> http://www.maplin.co.uk/robotic-arm-kit-with-usb-pc-interface-266257 >> http://www.owirobots.com/cart/html/owi-535pc-robotic-arm-kit-with-usb-pc-interface-assembled.html >> >> Please let me know your comments. > > Very nice, but are there any real requirement to have this be a kernel > driver, and not just be driven from userspace through libusb/usbfs > instead? Thanks. A number of people are using the libusb based userspace applications to control these devices. This was an attempt to remove the libusb dependency and control the device easily like: # echo 1 > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/robotic_arm/5-1:1.0/led > thanks, > greg k-h Best Regards, Maxin B. John _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
