Re: usbmon structures headers?

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Sat, Jul 04, 2020 at 10:46:09PM +0100, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
> (Updating Paolo's email, that is out of date in both sources.)
> 
> On Sat, Jul 4, 2020, at 22:43, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> > 
> > I'm trying to write a quick implementation of usbmon capture in Cython, 
> > for an Apache-2.0 licensed project[1].
> > 
> > As I followed the documentation[2], I realised that the definition of 
> > ioctl constants and structures for usbmon are not exposed in headers at 
> > all, only in the sources[3]. This makes it… a bit of a problem, because 
> > I'm not sure if mimicking the structures in Cython falls into the 
> > syscall exception at that point.
> > 
> > Interesting enough, libpcap appears to define the same values, but 
> > apply an MIT license to them[4], so I could copy them from there, but I 
> > thought I would at least check first, if this should be exposed in the 
> > first place.
> > 
> > Please advise!
> > 
> > [1]: https://github.com/Flameeyes/usbmon-tools
> > [2]: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/usb/usbmon.txt
> > [3]: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/usb/mon/mon_bin.c
> > [4]: https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap/blob/master/pcap-usb-linux.c

Yeah, we really should put those structures in include/uapi/ with the
proper license.  Care to make a patch for it?

thanks,

greg k-h