El Wed, 21 Dec 2005 04:11:35 -0800, Bahadir Balban <bilgehan.balban@xxxxxxxxx> escribió: > Hi, > > Just as socket abstractions are exported to userspace, would it be a > bad idea to have a similar abstraction for USB drivers? After all, > URBs are high-level descriptions of low-level transfers on the hcds. > Linux drivers usually reside in the kernel, but theoretically would > you consider this to bring any benefits, if the URB interface was > exported to user-space like sockets, and class drivers would be built > on this abstraction? TCP/IP is also performance-critical but exporting > sockets to userspace has brought indispensable benefits. What would be > the losses and gains on USB? http://libusb.sourceforge.net/ ? -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
