From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: lroluk@gmail.com (Luca Ellero)
Date: Tue, 06 May 2014 16:00:24 +0200
Subject: Developing a Linux driver using a USB sniffer
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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