On Wed, 5 Sep 2018 at 12:49, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Do not use USB for anything that you have to do that is deterministic. > Unless you can handle dropping data on the floor (like USB audio will > do). Other than that, why not just use the bus-specific hardware > controller for this type of bus to monitor and read the data? That > hardware is available, right? Got it. We _could_ probably handle dropping data, but our solution would then have to constantly reconnect to the network. I think that'd just be a major headache. Yes, there is hardware for this, but we wanted to see if we'd be able to solve this primarily in software. We already have one these: [0]. The unfortunate thing is that all the available software is Windows-based :-) There are no Linux drivers, but hey, maybe I'll finally get to write a kernel driver :D [0] https://www.thorsis.com/en/industrial-automation/usb-interfaces/profibus/ispro-usbx12/ Thanks! -- Thomas _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
