Hello,
On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 13:27 -0800, Guy Harris wrote:
> Paolo Abeni wrote:
> > This new API should be available
> > in the linux kernel starting from version 2.6.21 or 2.6.22.
>
> but kernel.org only has 2.6.19 as the current version and 2.6.20 as the
> upcoming version. Should it just speak of a future kernel release,
> without committing to a number, until the new mechanism shows up in a
> prepatch? Also, is a patch with the new binary API available somewhere?
The patch as been 'accepted' by the maintainer of the Linux USB
subsystem (Greg K.H.) and is available here:
http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/gregkh-03-usb/usb-add-binary-api-to-usbmon.patch
It should apply to linux 2.6.20-rc6, but it depends on other patches
present in the Greg archive. To get the thing working, the easier way
should be to apply:
http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/gregkh-all-2.6.20-rc6.patch
which contains all the stuff maintained by Greg and should apply cleanly
to linux 2.6.20-rc6.
Due to it's current state, I think that the binary API patch will not be
included into linux vanilla 2.6.20 but I hope that it will enter into
2.6.21. I suppose that a generic 'future release' is a more safe guess,
but I think/hope that such statement will be outdated soon :-)
Best regards,
Paolo
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