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Can you give me some pointers & documentation links for HOWTO using libusb/usbfs instead of a kernel driver. Regards, Mukund Jampala > -----Original Message-----> From: Greg KH [mailto:greg@kroah.com]> Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 11:03 AM> To: Mukund JB.> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Subject: Re: clarity on kref needed.> > > On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 10:35:37AM +0530, Mukund JB. wrote: > > > > > > > -----Original Message-----> > > From: Greg KH [mailto:greg@kroah.com]> > > Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 10:33 AM> > > To: Mukund JB.> > > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> > > Subject: Re: clarity on kref needed.> > > > > > > > > On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 10:15:51AM +0530, Mukund JB. wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I have gone through kref and am planning to implement then > > > > > in my usb driver.> > > > > > > > > > What kind of usb driver?> > > > It is a finger print authentication USB driver. it > doesn ot do the> > > > authgentication but transports data to the application > which really> > > > does some processing.> > > > > > You shouldn't need a kernel driver for this, it can be done > > > in userspace> > > with libusb/usbfs, right?> > > > I mean I will register a char driver. I will just write a > simple char> > kernel module to read data from the USB device and zero > copy it to the> > userspace application. I guess that is the minimum work we > need to do.> > You can do that from userspace with libusb/usbfs with no kernel driver > needed. Why not do that instead?> > > Is there any other way using libusb/usbfs in which we can do this > > without a need of USB kernel driver?> > Yes, use libusb/usbfs :)> > > > > No, I did not find any Documentation/kref.txt.> > > > But I have read about kred in the link below:> > > > > > > http://developer.osdl.org/dev/robustmutexes/src/fusyn.hg/Docum> > entation/kref.txt> > > >> > > >Is kref depricated because I find nothing related to it > in linux/Documentation/?> > > > > What kernel version are you looking at? Look in the > kernel source tree> > > from kernel.org. What kernel tree are you building your > driver against.> > > > I am planning it for 2.6.11.12.> > That's a pretty old kernel version, why not use the latest version? > > thanks,> > greg k-h> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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