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USBIP daemon relies on functions available in glib2 library to spawn handler code for incoming connection. This makes the whole program dependent on glib2 library, which is a GNOME library that on systems that don't have GNOME results in pulling more dependency, only to be able to run a relatively trivial socket-based program. While this may not seem to be a problem on full-blown desktops that already have the necessary libraries, it is a big issue on small embedded systems (think USB hub with an Ethernet port) that only have bare essentials in their file systems. This patch eliminates glib2 dependency by reworking the code to use lower level system calls to dispatch connection handler. Instead of using glib2-style event loop and dispatching mechanism, just do a ppoll(2) system call in our own loop and call accept(2) followed by fork(2) on the socket that has incoming connection. Stevens' books taught us that more than twenty years ago. No need for anything smarter in a simple server, such as usbipd. Signed-off-by: Ilija Hadzic <ihadzic@research.bell-labs.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> |
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| userspace | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| Makefile | ||
| README | ||
| stub_dev.c | ||
| stub_main.c | ||
| stub_rx.c | ||
| stub_tx.c | ||
| stub.h | ||
| usbip_common.c | ||
| usbip_common.h | ||
| usbip_event.c | ||
| usbip_protocol.txt | ||
| vhci_hcd.c | ||
| vhci_rx.c | ||
| vhci_sysfs.c | ||
| vhci_tx.c | ||
| vhci.h | ||
TODO: - more discussion about the protocol - testing - review of the userspace interface - document the protocol Please send patches for this code to Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>