2011/10/4 Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 05:19:13PM +0200, Jack Smith wrote: >> >> The thing is, I really want to work on device drivers. It seemed like >> USB-MTP would be a good candidate since USB is clearly not going away, >> and MTP seems fairly poorly supported within Linux (unless I'm missing >> something). > > Look at the libgphoto library, I think all of the code you want to use > is there. libgphoto2 has the lowest levels of the PTP protocol, including the MTP extensions. libmtp uses the same codebase and abstracts the metadata and device handling for media applications. We have a copy of the PTP source in both, we tend to keep them in sync. The problems with MTP support on Linux are introductory described in the libmtp README file: http://libmtp.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=libmtp/libmtp;a=blob_plain;f=README;hb=HEAD One of the biggest problems is that a lot of devices announce capabilities they do not have, leading to excess blacklist work. Especially recent Android devices are sinners in this regard. Thanks, Linus Walleij -- 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
