Hi Firstly sorry for the extremely slow reply. I read the email on my phone and as I haven't figured out how to reply inline, I thought - I'll do it tomorrow - then completely forgot. Ooops. > > On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 3:39 PM, Jonathan Cameron <jic23@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 04/30/11 08:33, Prashant Shah wrote: >>> Hi, >>> I was initially trying to do that with the comedi based system but I >>> was suggest to try working with the IIO sub system. >> That's curious. I was going to suggest you looked at comedi! >> Out of interest, what was the reason given? > > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/pipermail/kernelnewbies/2011-April/001616.html Hmm. Greg may be speculating a touch there. New drivers maybe... > >>> I am newbie so I dont want to do something that will be hard >>> for me to work with :) >> Two initial questions. Do you have the full docs? NI haven't been >> helpful to my requests in the past (which has put me off ever using >> their kit again). > > I dont have any docs other than what is available on their website. Is > it possible to track the usb traffic and work with that. It's certainly possible and having looked at the above post I see you have made some progress. Any luck getting it working? > The device > that I am working with in pretty basic and we are interested in only > the getting the analog input data for the time being. > >> Secondly, why does this want to be in kernel space? > > There are few similar devices in the staging/comedi/drivers area. I am > just following them! I dont know whether comedi can work with libusb. Directly, it probably can't. Comedi goes through a library though (iirc) so it would probably be possible to do things at that level. Jonathan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-iio" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
