Re: composite gadget with _real_ USB device

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On Fri, 20 May 2016, Felipe Balbi wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> Shea Ako <hackingsma@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > I’ve been learning about and playing with configfs and functionfs to
> > create composite user space USB gadgets. My objective is to create a
> > composite USB gadget that incorporates a custom functionfs function of
> > my own creation along with some _real_ USB devices connected to my
> > linux platform.
> >
> > Is there an easy existing way to bundle _real_ USB devices into a
> > composite gadget like this or am I looking at writing my own user
> > space functionfs functions which handle wrapping and forwarding the
> > interfaces/endpoints/data of the connected _real_ USB devices?
> 
> heh, you're really on your own. Sounds pretty interesting but you're
> gonna spend a lot of time with this :p
> 
> > I haven’t found any documented existing way to do this, but I thought
> > I should ask before I go off an implement it myself as it seems that
> > this might be a use case which isn’t entirely off the wall and there
> > could already be support for this somewhere that I haven’t yet
> > encountered.
> 
> I don't think anybody has done anything like this yet. The closest I got
> was to attach some USB sticks to host port via HUB, setup RAID and use
> that RAID as backing store for g_mass_storage, then connect
> g_mass_storage back to same host which has the RAID of several USB
> sticks (same machine has host and peripheral controllers).

How about setting up USBIP, using the same machine as both the server
and the client?

Alan Stern

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