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Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:16:39 +0000
From: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
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Subject: Re: Help writing my first USB driver ( no user space code needed
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kernel.org@spam.bounceme.net wrote:
> I am trying to write a device driver for a USB device that is not currently
> supported by Linux. Trouble is all the examples I have found so far (
> usb-skel.c and others ) give an example of a driver that is a middle man
> between a userspace application and the device. So there are no examples on
> how to actually send the data to the device.
> 
> In my case, the device I am using simply uses the machine it is connected
> to as an internet connection. The driver should send/receive data from the
> device and allow the device to go and make TCP connections to the internet.

You probably want to do this in userspace using libusb. I would be 
surprised if there is any sane way of creating and managing TCP 
connections from inside the kernel.

Daniel
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