It's not abandoned, it's in the Linux kernel tree now. The GPL code won't be
acceptable in OpenBSD kernel (and probably would need to be quite different for
our USB stack).
Seems interesting, but I can't imagine it being implemented just for the fun of
it - and there are bigger issues in the USB stack ;)
On 9 January 2015 05:50:51 GMT+00:00, Alan Corey wrote:
>It sounds like a useful thing, not sure how hard it would be under
>OpenBSD. It takes USB traffic and routes it over TCP/IP from one
>computer to another. So something like a webcam or SDR dongle could
>be upstairs and you're watching it downstairs. You could possibly
>control/access remote devices over the internet if your connection was
>good enough.
>
>They had it working for Linux and Windows but it seems to have been
>abandoned about 2011. As written it uses sysfs, which even Linux
>abandoned, I haven't looked at what they used it for exactly. It's
>looking for /usr/include/sysfs/libsysfs.h which I don't have even on
>my Raspberry Pi, the only Linux box I've got.
>
>The SF page: http://usbip.sourceforge.net/
>
> Alan
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