Adding Sakari and Babu, who might want to add a few people from our side. Cheers Kenneth
On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 10:20 AM Lars Knudsen <lar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am currently looking into how we can make using WebUSB devices less > painful for users on Linux. > > The main purpose of WebUSB (as far as I can see) is to enable certain CDC > (in particular - but not limited to) devices communicate directly with > browsers visiting certain trusted sites (listed inside a binary object > store - sent on initial handshake). > > The spec is here: https://wicg.github.io/webusb/ (already running fine in > chrome stable) > Examples: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1Nk2hH2wFE > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7wGt9RfHVA > https://twitter.com/denladeside/status/817451203076427783 > > I'm guessing the solution will consist of 2 parts: > > 1. make sure no WebUSB device is picked up by modemmanager (modemmanager > task) > > 2. make sure that webusb devices will be somehow accessible to be used by > a browser running with user permissions (current temp solution listed here: > adding user to plugdev, adding 0664 permissions to device: > https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2016/03/access-usb-devices-on-the-web > ) (udev/systemd task). > > For 2. we need to either making all webusb devices accessible or find some > other way the browsers can - in a generic way - gain access. In all cases, > it's important that no USB interfaces has been pre-claimed by the system > (e.g. by cdc_acm) or it should be possible for the browser to throw off the > claims. > > thoughts? > > br > Lars > > >
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