Re: Adding support for USB Device Class Definition for Personal Healthcare Devices

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Thanks everyone,

I think also as Matthew (use libusb) for the same reason, simplicity
and it works in other OS.
Now I´m starting working in the project enumerating the device.

Regards.

2010/11/23 Matthew Dharm <mdharm-usb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 02:30:27PM +0200, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> > >This device is a OxyOximeter blood oxygen monitor from Nonin that
> > >implements the personal healthcare standard (ISO/IEEE 11073-10101,
> > >Health Informatices and ISO/IEEE 11073-20601 Optimized Exchange
> > >Protocol) to exchange the information.
> > >
> > >The specification for usb is at:
> > >http://www.usb.org/developers/devclass_docs => Personal Healthcare =>
> > >Personal Healthcare Rev. 1.0, Errata for USB Personal Health Care
> > >Device Class and Personal Healthcare Adopters Agreement.
> > >
> > >For this device usb only is used to bypass the information from the
> > >device to the application manager (at user space).
> > >
> > >My question is about how I must adding support for it. I must
> > >implement a kernel device driver or at user space with libusb?
> >
> > Personally, I'd like a kernel driver better. But add all the constants
> > and data structures from the Specification to a common header, something
> > like include/linux/usb/health.h, so that it can be re-used for both host
> > and gadget drivers.
>
> I see no reason for this to be a kernel-level driver.  It would not be
> interfacing to any other portion of the kernel, other than USB.
>
> I would recommend implementing this as a userspace driver/library using
> libusb.  Thus, a PHDC application would just use that library to access a
> PDHC-compliant device.
>
> Matt
>
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