> How about setting up USBIP, using the same machine as both the server > and the client? That’s an interesting idea, I’ll check it out. Thanks for the tip! And thanks Felipe for your input too, I really appreciate the help. > On May 20, 2016, at 9:38 AM, Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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 > -- 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
