Re: filter drivers in Linux

2009-01-07 Thread Ramya Desai
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 11:33:06AM +0530, Ramya Desai wrote: >> Can anyone suggest the possibility of writing a UASP driver in Linux >> as mentioned ? or any such implementation is available in any of Linux >> flavours? As for as I know, UASP looks

Re: filter drivers in Linux

2009-01-06 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 12:22:07PM +0530, Ramya Desai wrote: > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Greg KH wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 11:33:06AM +0530, Ramya Desai wrote: > >> Can anyone suggest the possibility of writing a UASP driver in Linux > >> as mentioned ? or any such implementation i

Re: filter drivers in Linux

2009-01-06 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 05:33:57PM +0530, Srinivas G. wrote: > Please ignore my previous post. > > The current USB storage system is not lacking of any thing. Great. > My requirement is to develop a driver for my custom device which can > queue the commands with the corresponding increase in the

Re: filter drivers in Linux

2009-01-06 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 11:33:06AM +0530, Ramya Desai wrote: > Can anyone suggest the possibility of writing a UASP driver in Linux > as mentioned ? or any such implementation is available in any of Linux > flavours? As for as I know, UASP looks very new technology, for any > references any one can

Re: filter drivers in Linux

2009-01-06 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 07:17:15PM +0530, Ramya Desai wrote: > I am also having the similar requirement. > My requirement is to develop a driver for UASP (USB Attached SCSI > Protocol) driver, without effecting the existing USB sub system. Why not change anything in the existing USB code in the ke

Re: filter drivers in Linux

2009-01-06 Thread Ramya Desai
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 7:17 PM, Ramya Desai wrote: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Srinivas G. > wrote: >>>On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 04:01:02PM +0530, Srinivas G. wrote: Actually my requirement is a bit different. I wanted to develop my custom driver in USB stack, which wanted to modi

Re: filter drivers in Linux

2008-12-29 Thread Ramya Desai
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Srinivas G. wrote: >>On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 04:01:02PM +0530, Srinivas G. wrote: >>> Actually my requirement is a bit different. I wanted to develop my >>> custom driver in USB stack, which wanted to modify the data > transmitted >>> and received by storage class

RE: filter drivers in Linux

2008-12-29 Thread Srinivas G.
>On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 04:01:02PM +0530, Srinivas G. wrote: >> Actually my requirement is a bit different. I wanted to develop my >> custom driver in USB stack, which wanted to modify the data transmitted >> and received by storage class driver. >> >> Here is the place of the driver I am plannin

RE: filter drivers in Linux

2008-12-29 Thread Srinivas G.
...@michaelblizek.twilightparadox.com; j.vi...@gmail.com; ma...@marksmachinations.com; kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org Subject: Re: filter drivers in Linux On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 04:01:02PM +0530, Srinivas G. wrote: > Actually my requirement is a bit different. I wanted to develop my > custom driver in USB stack, which

Re: filter drivers in Linux

2008-12-26 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 04:01:02PM +0530, Srinivas G. wrote: > Actually my requirement is a bit different. I wanted to develop my > custom driver in USB stack, which wanted to modify the data transmitted > and received by storage class driver. > > Here is the place of the driver I am planning to i

RE: filter drivers in Linux

2008-12-26 Thread Srinivas G.
> On 18:32 Wed 24 Dec , Srinivas G. wrote: >> Is there any concept of filter driver in case of Linux like in windows >> OS. In windows we can write a filter driver to enhance the behavior of >> existing driver and this filter driver can be attached to main driver >> either above or below. B

Re: filter drivers in Linux

2008-12-24 Thread Greg Freemyer
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Greg Freemyer wrote: > On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 8:02 AM, Srinivas G. > wrote: >> Dear All >> >> >> >> Is there any concept of filter driver in case of Linux like in windows OS. >> In windows we can write a filter driver to enhance the behavior of existing >> drive

Re: filter drivers in Linux

2008-12-24 Thread Michael Blizek
Hi! On 18:32 Wed 24 Dec , Srinivas G. wrote: > Is there any concept of filter driver in case of Linux like in windows > OS. In windows we can write a filter driver to enhance the behavior of > existing driver and this filter driver can be attached to main driver > either above or below. But I

Re: filter drivers in Linux

2008-12-24 Thread Vimal
2008/12/24 Srinivas G. : > Dear All > > > > Is there any concept of filter driver in case of Linux like in windows OS. > In windows we can write a filter driver to enhance the behavior of existing > driver and this filter driver can be attached to main driver either above or > below. But I don't se

Re: filter drivers in Linux

2008-12-24 Thread Greg Freemyer
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 8:02 AM, Srinivas G. wrote: > Dear All > > > > Is there any concept of filter driver in case of Linux like in windows OS. > In windows we can write a filter driver to enhance the behavior of existing > driver and this filter driver can be attached to main driver either abov

Re: filter drivers in Linux

2008-12-24 Thread Mark Brown
You can stack a driver on top of another to enhance functionality. For an example check the Linux RAID and LVM implementations. In general you don't need filter drivers because you can modify the Linux kernel to add functionality, where in Windows you generally cannot. Regards, -- Mark On

filter drivers in Linux

2008-12-24 Thread Srinivas G.
Dear All Is there any concept of filter driver in case of Linux like in windows OS. In windows we can write a filter driver to enhance the behavior of existing driver and this filter driver can be attached to main driver either above or below. But I don't see similar concept in Linux. Please a