[Prism54-devel] USB & al

[sebastien.b at swissinfo.org]

>I have been thinking about the prism54 userspace usb driver, so far I only
>wrote an asynchronous usb api (the libusb is synchronous (and I didn't
 know
>that usbfs supports aio) and so it is not very well suited for this task
>With libusb and polling it would not be probably very
>usable, but the aio could work pretty well.

Aren't POSIX threads (libpthread) just fine ? They address both portability
and synchronous IO problems.

>A wireless tap device and a way to pass the iw requests to the process
>would be nice for that. 

For now, I'm just thinking of command line and maybe UNIX sockets (or any
other IPC solution) ; only for experimentation and reverse engineering.


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