From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261435AbVBBF7n (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Feb 2005 00:59:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261477AbVBBF7n (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Feb 2005 00:59:43 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:45518 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261435AbVBBF7l (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Feb 2005 00:59:41 -0500 Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 21:59:36 -0800 From: Pete Zaitcev To: Marcel Holtmann Cc: Greg KH , Linux Kernel Mailing List , zaitcev@redhat.com Subject: Re: Patch to add usbmon Message-ID: <20050201215936.029be631@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1107293870.9652.76.camel@pegasus> References: <20050131212903.6e3a35e5@localhost.localdomain> <20050201071000.GF20783@kroah.com> <20050201003218.478f031e@localhost.localdomain> <1107256383.9652.26.camel@pegasus> <20050201095526.0ee2e0f4@localhost.localdomain> <1107293870.9652.76.camel@pegasus> Organization: Red Hat, Inc. X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 0.9.12cvs126.2 (GTK+ 2.4.14; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 22:37:50 +0100, Marcel Holtmann wrote: > I think if cat is the prefered tool for viewing this file then it should > be more human readable. If not, then a binary format should be choosen. > Maybe we can implement both. Is this possible? Yes. Now you know why files were split as they were. > > But if you or someone else were to hack on something like usbdump(1), > > it would be peachy, I think. > > I can start with usbdump if we agree on an interface. I personally would > prefer a binary interface for that. If you want to start scoping it, it's fine by me. I was going to concentrate on fixing what's needed first, such as getting control setup packets captured and things like that. -- Pete