[3/5] USB and PCI video timestamp device project

Greg KH greg at kroah.com
Thu Oct 4 06:09:31 UTC 2007


On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 06:52:04AM -0400, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> On 10/2/07, Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> wrote:
> > Summary: USB and PCI driver for time-stamp device
> >
> > Description:
> >         The company has a number of different PCI and USB video
> >         time-stamp devices that they need drivers written for.  To start
> >         out, the USB driver would be developed first, with the PCI
> >         drivers afterward.  The devices are very simple, however the
> >         userspace interface to the devices is quite complex and can use
> >         someone who knows how to properly design and implement these
> >         kinds of things well.  A "shim" userspace library might be
> >         needed to hide some of the device/bus specific things from
> >         userspace programs.
> >
> > Estimated skills needed:
> >         USB and PCI programming.  User/kernel interface experience with
> >         complex interfaces (ioctls, sysfs, configfs, etc.)  Possible
> >         userspace library experience also needed.
> >         This is not a good "first driver" type project.
> >
> >
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> 
> Where could I get more information about the devices themselves ??
> I could take a lead here and I'd be glad helping you.

Thanks, but this is now taken.

greg k-h



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