Device Drivers for Linux...

[bsodmike]

I plan to be designing a few 'systems' that would probably communicate with a linux system via USB - does anyone here have experience in coding device drivers and using these drivers to control the attached peripheral?

I guess it works as follows:

Application >> Device driver >> device....

Any help would be great. I'm thinking of picking up a book covering this topic but that will be sometime next year.

Thanks,

--Mike

[ikonia]

Hi Mike,

I may be able to help with this, or point in the right direction.

We could do with a little more detail, as that will depend on whats needed.

For example, are you going to try to use a device to control a linux system, or use a linux system to control a remote device ? what sort of level of control/communication are you looking for, how do you plan for the devices to talk (eg: an application stack). What sort of hardware ?

little bit more information, and I should be able to point you at something.

[TheAnimus]

If your wanting to make a TCP/IP stack over USB its not going to be simple.

USB networking devices, are not simple or reliable. They are just plain horrible.

USB has a class orientated design (which i hope you know by now) do you know what class it would be?

USB in linux is horrible. Just plain horrible, compaired to working with windows.