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From: lroluk@gmail.com (Luca Ellero)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Developing a Linux driver using a USB sniffer
Date: Tue, 06 May 2014 16:00:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5368EAF8.8010309@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABi1daHT7BiDBWj0WDs7JX-06-sazJo7cBa+kzKbdt9csrAEQA@mail.gmail.com>

Il 05/05/2014 22:39, Dave Hylands wrote:
> Hi Luca,
>
> On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 5:06 AM, Luca Ellero <lroluk@gmail.com 
> <mailto:lroluk@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> > can someone please tell me if it is legal to develop an USB driver
> > analysing the USB protocol with a USB sniffer?
> > Can this driver be made public under GPL?
>
> Just though I'd point out that WireShark http://www.wireshark.org/ 
> already has usb sniffing builtin 
> http://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/USB It uses the usbmon which is 
> already part of the kernel
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/usb/usbmon.txt
>
> --
> Dave Hylands
> Shuswap, BC, Canada
> http://www.davehylands.com

Thanks to all for the replies ,
regards
Luca

  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-06 14:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-05 12:06 Developing a Linux driver using a USB sniffer Luca Ellero
2014-05-05 12:50 ` Tovo Rabemanantsoa
2014-05-05 13:10 ` Greg KH
2014-05-05 20:39 ` Dave Hylands
2014-05-06 14:00   ` Luca Ellero [this message]
2014-05-06 15:31 ` Eric Fowler

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