[with a valid Message-ID] On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 10:00:32AM +0100, Bjørn Mork wrote: > [added linux-usb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc] > > Stephanie Wallick <stephanie.s.wallick@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Media Agnostic (MA) USB enables the USB protocol to be used over a wide > > range of physical media. MA USB is a relatively new protocol and is > > currently unsupported in the Linux kernel. This patch set adds the > > following drivers with the following capabilities: > > > > 1) MA USB Host: > > - provides functionality of a USB Host Controller. > > - implements MA USB protocol for a MA USB host. > > - provides MA USB packet transport over TCP > > > > 2) MA USB Device: > > - provides functionality of a USB Device Controller. > > - implements MA USB protocol for a MA USB device. > > - provides MA USB packet transport over TCP > > Nice. But don't you think this deserves the attention of the linux-usb > mailing list? Yes, Greg's attention is of course good to have too :-) > But I believe this is of interest to more people, who might not read > everything on linux-kernel. This is probably more relevant/interesting to the people on linux-usb. Since we were trying to get this driver into staging, we thought linux-kernel was the right place to send the patches. We can send the next set out to linux-usb as well. > Has there been any thought/discussion about the relationship to the > existing usbip drivers, which just moved out of staging? Is a usbip > userspace compatibility layer feasible sometime in the future? That discussion hasn't happened. usbip has a different protocol than MA USB, so much of the code cannot be reused. I just briefly looked into the userspace code for usbip. It looks like the userspace compatibility layer is just a utility for establishing the TCP connection between the host and device & choosing what devices to connect, correct? We have a similar utility (see patch 9/10) which could probably be replaced by the usbip userspace utilities. Thanks, Sean -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
