On Sat, Jul 04, 2020 at 10:46:09PM +0100, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > (Updating Paolo's email, that is out of date in both sources.) > > On Sat, Jul 4, 2020, at 22:43, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > I'm trying to write a quick implementation of usbmon capture in Cython, > > for an Apache-2.0 licensed project[1]. > > > > As I followed the documentation[2], I realised that the definition of > > ioctl constants and structures for usbmon are not exposed in headers at > > all, only in the sources[3]. This makes it… a bit of a problem, because > > I'm not sure if mimicking the structures in Cython falls into the > > syscall exception at that point. > > > > Interesting enough, libpcap appears to define the same values, but > > apply an MIT license to them[4], so I could copy them from there, but I > > thought I would at least check first, if this should be exposed in the > > first place. > > > > Please advise! > > > > [1]: https://github.com/Flameeyes/usbmon-tools > > [2]: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/usb/usbmon.txt > > [3]: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/usb/mon/mon_bin.c > > [4]: https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap/blob/master/pcap-usb-linux.c Yeah, we really should put those structures in include/uapi/ with the proper license. Care to make a patch for it? thanks, greg k-h
