Re: USB Mass Storage with rump

[Olaf Buddenhagen]

Hi,

On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 10:52:13AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:

> Since you most likely want to provide multiplexing, authorisation,
> etc, to any application who wants to access USB, I wouldn't recommend
> to lump USB mass storage and *HCI in the same Rump instance.

Quite frankly, I wouldn't either :-) It just sounded like Bruno wanted
to go with such a simplistic approach for the start...

> Instead, you could run a Rump instance with USB mass storage only
> which uses libusb as backend rather than its own *HCI driver (but that
> requires some coding work as it's currently not implemented ;-))

Yeah, I guess that's the price to pay if we want a properly layered
driver stack based on an originally monolithic implementation :-) As
long as we don't need to jump through hoops to achieve that (and it gets
upstream support), I'd say it's worth the effort...

-antrik-