Re: [usbip-devel] USB/IP

[Ricardo G. da S. <ca...@gm...>]

Hi Andy,

Oh, I see.. now I understand the staging :-) My focus itself wasn't the
usbip kernel modules, but the Windows port. I tried to keep up with the
staging code, but eventually I gave up as well (mainly because I moved to
another country and I didn't have the need for USB/IP at home anymore).

Unfortunately I haven't spoken with any of the original developers or the
"new ones" (the group that tried to keep up on the Windows port, which
includes me) in a long time. Quite some time ago we went through a huge
discussion how we should proceed regarding the Windows port and we managed
to fix a bunch of bugs, but then we stopped. My guess is that they moved on
to other projects as well.

Regarding the usbip-userpace: I personally think you should move as soon as
possible to somewhere else, mostly because it would simplify ports in the
future. Btw, just for curiosity, any chance that in the future a libusbip
might exist somewhere, almost ready to be ported? You know, it's always
easier to port a library then the whole userspace tools... :-)

Anyway, I believe most of the usbip-related discussions, at least for
Linux, are inside the kernel mailing lists, right? I mean, it has been a
while since I saw some activity around here, and most of it was regarding
the Windows port, not the original Linux code.


Regards,

Ricardo


2014-02-10 21:21 GMT+01:00 Andy Grover <ag...@re...>:

> On 02/10/2014 12:08 PM, Ricardo Gomes da Silva wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'd like to point out a small note: the code on SourceForge is a port of
> > USB/IP for Windows. The USB/IP itself (the original Linux code) has been
> > already merged into the kernel's code (actually this was a long time ago
> > as far as I know). For lack of time, I didn't continue my work fixing
> > the Windows port, but I'll do something about it.. eventually. There are
> > just too many patches to do and stuff to update.
> >
> > But anyway, from what I could see you're going to work with USB/IP on
> > Linux, not Windows, so follow Valentina's instructions and you should be
> > fine.
>
> Hi Ricardo,
>
> I am helping Valentina work on usbip for Linux, in association with the
> GNOME OPW[1] program. usbip was merged into the Linux kernel tree, but
> in the "staging" branch. This is not meant as a long-term location for
> things.
>
> When the usbip kernel driver is promoted out of staging, the usbip
> user-tools also need to go somewhere. Since it seems like the people
> working on usbip for Linux have moved on, we were planning on hosting
> usbip-userspace somewhere else, maybe on github. If this is incorrect,
> please say so. We'd love to work along with the original Linux
> developers, if they're around :-)
>
> Regards -- Andy
>
> [1] http://kernelnewbies.org/OPWIntro
>