Re: [usbip-devel] usbip.sourceforge.net page is not current

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

Hi Benjamin,

Sounds good to me, but first I think we should check all the patches people
sent over the last two years of non-development. I was thinking about
personally moving the code to github and leaving sourceforge idle. This is
just because I prefer it ;)

But anyway, I don't think the driver is stable, and I remember applying
some patches to it (mostly overflow protections as far as I can remember).
This requires the driver to be signed again, which is a problem - we have
access only to the testing certificate, not the real one. As far as I know
it was signed by the people on ReactOS, but I might be wrong, so we might
have to contact them as well.

Right now I'm quite busy with some exams and my thesis at the university,
but as soon as I have some free hours I might boot my testing VMs again and
setup a new and proper development environment (last time I checked mine
was terrible to work with).


Best regards,

Ricardo


2014-02-11 Benjamin DeCamp <ben...@gm...>:

> I'd like to fixup the main web page for the project to update the fact
> that no further linux development is happening at sourceforge. And to
> clarify how to make the windows client actually work with modern linux
> versions.
>
> Currently the data on where development is happening is in the message
> boards and mailing list. But for people getting exposed to the project for
> the first time it looks quite dead. However the opposite is true because it
> has been merged into the staging area of the linux kernel itself.
>
> The first quote on the page says "Download the latest version" with a link
> to the long dead repo on sourceforge instead of to the staging area of the
> linux kernel.
>
> We also need to fix the current "latest version" of the windows client. A
> fix has been contributed (commit r191) that allows usbip.exe to work with
> modern linux versions without re-compiling the driver (which is signed and
> quite stable). This would be a simple update to one file in the released
> .zip that would allow the 500+ people/week downloading to be able to
> actually use it without modifying the linux version strings as found here:
> http://jaxlucky.blogspot.com/2013/10/sharing-usb-devices-between-beaglebone.html
>
> Someone has also contributed a fix in the forums for a BSOD in windows,
> this needs to be committed to the windows driver so we can start testing
> the fix. I would love to become a contributor and keep this side of the
> project alive.
>
> -Ben
>
>
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