Re: Kinect sensor and Linux kernel driver.

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On 12/09/2010 10:33 AM, Antonio Ospite wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Dec 2010 12:29:31 +0100
> Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> On 12/06/2010 10:18 PM, Antonio Ospite wrote:
> 
> [...]
>>
>>>    - Check if gspca can handle two video nodes for the same USB device
>>>      in a single driver (Kinect sensor uses ep 0x81 for color data and
>>>      ep 0x82 for depth data).
>>
>> Currently gspca cannot handle 2 streaming endpoints / 2 video nodes for 1
>> usb device. I've been thinking about this and I think that the simplest solution
>> is to simply pretend the kinects video functionality consists of 2 different
>> devices / usb interfaces in a multifunction device. Even though it does not
>> what I'm proposing is for the kinect driver to call: gspca_dev_probe twice with
>> 2 different sd_desc structures, thus creating 2 /dev/video nodes, framequeues and
>> isoc management variables.
>>
>> This means that the alt_xfer function in gspca.c needs to be changed to not
>> always return the first isoc ep. We need to add an ep_nr variable to the
>> cam struct and when that is set alt_xfer should search for the ep with that
>> number and return that (unless the wMaxPacketSize for that ep is 0 in the
>> current alt setting in which case NULL should be returned).
>>
> 
> Thanks for these directions, it doesn't sound too hard to do.
> 

as for two endpoints, I've been playing with getting the code from
drivers/media/video/gspca/konica.c. into kinect.c.  It enumerates
multiple URBs for one USB device.  Perhaps a combination of the above
and the konica driver will work?

thx,

Jason.
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