RFC: USB over Ethernet

[Jason]

Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 11:08:54AM -0400, Jason wrote:
>> I had what I thought was a great idea, and started stubbing out code
>> for what would be a USB-over-Ethernet driver.  This would be very
>> similar to the existing, in-kernel, ATA over Ethernet driver.  The end
>> goal would be to access webcams, thumbdrives, printers, etc from my
>> Android-based phone (no real usb host).
>>
>> As I was digging around for a proper (minimal) Kconfig to copy into my
>> directory, I happened upon staging/usbip...  oops.  They've put a lot
>> more work into this than I have.  However, it's IP.  The thing I like
>> about AoE is that it isn't routable, it's simple and there's less
>> overhead since it's running at a lower layer.
>>
>> So, before I burn too many cycles, should I just add my uoe*.c files
>> to staging/usbip/ or should I create my own staging/uoe/ and borrow
>> the vhci stuff?
> 
> Why not merge it with the existing code, that way the userspace tools
> will also work for you, unless you really want to also write new ones of
> those?

I agree.  Just after an initial glance at [1], it looks like I'll be attempting to write a drop-in replacement for usbip_common_mod.ko.

thx,

Jason.


[1]  http://usbip.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/usbip/linux/trunk/src/README?view=markup