Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Dec 2004 16:57:26 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: My vision of usbmon |
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On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 11:04:54PM -0800, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > Hi, Guys: > > This is usbmon which I cooked up because I got tired from adding dbg()'s > and polluting my dmesg. I use it to hunt bugs in USB storage devices so > far, and it's useful, although limited at this stage. > > I looked at the Harding's USBmon patch, and I think he got a few things right. > The main of them is that I underestimated the benefits of placing the special > files into the filesystem namespace. When we discussed it with Greg in the > airport, we decided that having some sort of Netlink-style socket would be > the best option. I decided to make a u-turn and attach those sockets into > the namespace (currently under /dbg, but it can change). What this buys us is: > > 1. cat(1): never bet against it. It's too handy. And netcat is just > not the same. > 2. USBmon userland in Java. Just try to hack in JNI a little as I have > and you'll see.
I agree, file interfaces are just too easy and simple to use. Sorry for sending you down the wrong track with the socket stuff.
> The architecture to support various output formats is present. Obvious > candidates are Old USBmon format and a Binary format. But it's not done.
It looks great, thanks for doing this work. Let me know when you want it added to the kernel tree.
thanks,
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