USB/IP support?

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

v3.17-rc3 gained (well, it was present before in staging) an interesting new
feature:

config USBIP_CORE
tristate "USB/IP support"
depends on USB && NET
---help---
This enables pushing USB packets over IP to allow remote
machines direct access to USB devices. It provides the
USB/IP core that is required by both drivers.

For more details, and to get the userspace utility
programs, please see <http://usbip.sourceforge.net/>.

To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will
be called usbip-core.

If unsure, say N.

Hence USB is no longer limited to Ataris with NetUSBee, but can be used
"by proxy" on all network-enabled m68k machines.
Have fun with webcams, TV-cards, ...

Do you think we should enable (modular, of course) USB and its myriads of
drivers in all defconfigs now?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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-- Linus Torvalds

[Michael Schmitz]

Hi Geert,

Post by Geert Uytterhoeven
v3.17-rc3 gained (well, it was present before in staging) an interesting new
config USBIP_CORE
tristate "USB/IP support"
depends on USB && NET
---help---
This enables pushing USB packets over IP to allow remote
machines direct access to USB devices. It provides the
USB/IP core that is required by both drivers.
For more details, and to get the userspace utility
programs, please see <http://usbip.sourceforge.net/>.
To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will
be called usbip-core.
If unsure, say N.
Hence USB is no longer limited to Ataris with NetUSBee, but can be used
"by proxy" on all network-enabled m68k machines.

Nice ... that's something I have been looking for occasionally.

Post by Geert Uytterhoeven
Have fun with webcams, TV-cards, ...
Do you think we should enable (modular, of course) USB and its myriads of
drivers in all defconfigs now?

I would not go quite that far. Test a few things like USB storage
first, perhaps.

Cheers,

Michael

Post by Geert Uytterhoeven
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
--
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds
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[Ingo Jürgensmann]

Post by Michael Schmitz

Post by Geert Uytterhoeven
Do you think we should enable (modular, of course) USB and its myriads of
drivers in all defconfigs now?

I would not go quite that far. Test a few things like USB storage
first, perhaps.

Please add keyboard & mouse support as well. That way it would be possible to attach newer keyboards & mice and such things as IP KVM extenders.