802.11 class for USB devices

802.11 class for USB devices

[Jon Smirl]

Any interest in doing this?

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Date: Feb 26, 2007 7:22 PM
Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] Docs for common class implementations
To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Cc: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>, linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net


On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 04:55:51PM -0500, Jon Smirl wrote:
> On 2/26/07, Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org> wrote:
> > Am Montag, 26. Februar 2007 22:39 schrieb Jon Smirl:
> > > On 2/26/07, Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > How about the wireless class, has anyone actually build a wireless
> > > > class device yet?
> > > > The dscape people should be integrating wireless USB class support
> > > > into their stack.
> > >
> > > I found the wireless class spec.
> > > http://www.usb.org/developers/devclass_docs/cdc_wmc10.zip
> >
> > This is intended for cell phones, not 802.11.
>
> USB group should do a spec for 802.11. All the devices I've seen are
> 95% similar in function but it is all vendor specific implementations.
> It would help solve the problem of 802.11 vendors refusing to release
> documentation for their "IP" (which turns out to not be any different
> between the vendors after the devices are reverse engineered).

Then create one.  The USB specification process is very company driven,
if you want to create a new spec, you get a few people together and do
it and then release it to the group and then everyone submits proposals
to clean it up and make it relativly sane.

I participated in the creating of many USB specs a long time ago and it
was a very open process, as long as you were a member of the USB
interface group, which most companies are.

thanks,

greg k-h


-- 
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com

Re: 802.11 class for USB devices

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 08:22:33PM -0500, Jon Smirl wrote:
> Any interest in doing this?

You have to have a manufacturer interested in doing this as well as
being a member of usb.org.

good luck,

greg k-h