Re: "usbhid-ups" programing problem...

[Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>]

Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 11:17:19AM -0400, Frank Pagliughi wrote:
>> Andrew Lunn wrote:
>>> eCos is rather lacking in USB examples. Nobody contributes back there
>>> USB class drivers.
>>>
>>>   
>> I'm actually going to be using eCos again pretty soon, and have been  
>> digging through some of my old stuff, including a nearly finished driver  
>> for the Philips/NXP ISP1181 chip, which I promised to submit two years  
>> ago.
> 
> It is probably worth looking at the assignments stuff. You will need
> an FSF assignment before we can accept these contributions.
> 
>> Maybe I can start with a few simple examples, like usb serial or a  
>> usb printer. Where would they go?
> 
> A CDC serial driver would be good. I would put it in
> 
> packages/io/usb/serial/slave/
> 
>> For that matter, the usb subsystem could use a bit of an upgrade to make  
>> drivers easier to write.
> 
> Others have said that as well. But it needs somebody to actually do
> it. A lot depends on the complexity of the driver. I recently wrote a
> simple driver and a Linux kernel counterpart without too much effort.

Perhaps you could share it as an example?


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