| Message ID | 20180730080452.15150-1-guido@kiener-muenchen.de (mailing list archive) |
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| Headers | show |
| Series | usb: usbtmc: Changes needed for compatible IVI/VISA library | expand |
On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 10:04:30AM +0200, Guido Kiener wrote: > The working group "VISA for Linux" of the IVI Foundation > www.ivifoundation.org specifies common rules, shared libraries and > drivers to implement the specification of "VPP-4.3: The VISA Library" > on Linux to be compatible with implementations on other operating systems. > > The USBTMC protocol is part of the "VISA Library" that is used by many > popular T&M applications. > > Initial implementations for Linux based on libusb has been created. > However using one common USBTMC driver results in more benefits: > > - Multiple applications can share access to the same instruments. > - The driver handles SRQ conflicts. > - Simplifies definition of udev rules for USBTMC devices. > - Simplifies development of applications using T&M instruments. > > The following collaborative patches meet the requirements of the IVI > Foundation to implement the library based on the usbtmc driver. > > Improvements in the data transfer rate of over 130 MByte/s for > usb 3.x connections have been measured. > > Guido Kiener, Dave Penkler, Steve Bayless (22): > usb: usbtmc: Add ioctl for generic requests on control > usb: usbtmc: Add ioctl for vendor specific write > usb: usbtmc: Add ioctl USBTMC_IOCTL_WRITE_RESULT > usb: usbtmc: Add ioctl for vendor specific read > usb: usbtmc: Add ioctl USBTMC_IOCTL_CANCEL_IO > usb: usbtmc: Add ioctl USBTMC_IOCTL_CLEANUP_IO > usb: usbtmc: Fix suspend/resume > usb: usbtmc: Add ioctl USBTMC488_IOCTL_WAIT_SRQ > usb: usbtmc: add ioctl USBTMC_IOCTL_MSG_IN_ATTR > usb: usbtmc: Add ioctl USBTMC_IOCTL_AUTO_ABORT > usb: usbtmc: Optimize usbtmc_write > usb: usbtmc: Optimize usbtmc_read > usb: usbtmc: Fix ioctl USBTMC_IOCTL_CLEAR > usb: usbtmc: Fix ioctl USBTMC_IOCTL_ABORT_BULK_IN > usb: usbtmc: Fix ioctl USBTMC_IOCTL_ABORT_BULK_OUT > usb: usbtmc: Replace USBTMC_TIMEOUT macros for control messages > usb: usbtmc: Add ioctl USBTMC_IOCTL_API_VERSION > usb: usbtmc: Update ioctl-number.txt > usb: usbtmc: Remove redundant code > usb: usbtmc: Remove redundant macro USBTMC_SIZE_IOBUFFER > usb: usbtmc: Fix split quoted string in debug message > usb: usbtmc: Remove sysfs group TermChar and auto_abort > > .../ABI/stable/sysfs-driver-usb-usbtmc | 35 - > Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt | 2 +- > drivers/usb/class/usbtmc.c | 1652 +++++++++++++---- > include/uapi/linux/usb/tmc.h | 41 + > 4 files changed, 1291 insertions(+), 439 deletions(-) What changed from v3 of this patch set? That needs to be listed somewhere, right? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Zitat von Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>: > On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 10:04:30AM +0200, Guido Kiener wrote: >> The working group "VISA for Linux" of the IVI Foundation >> www.ivifoundation.org specifies common rules, shared libraries and >> drivers to implement the specification of "VPP-4.3: The VISA Library" >> on Linux to be compatible with implementations on other operating systems. >> >> The USBTMC protocol is part of the "VISA Library" that is used by many >> popular T&M applications. >> >> Initial implementations for Linux based on libusb has been created. >> However using one common USBTMC driver results in more benefits: >> >> - Multiple applications can share access to the same instruments. >> - The driver handles SRQ conflicts. >> - Simplifies definition of udev rules for USBTMC devices. >> - Simplifies development of applications using T&M instruments. >> >> The following collaborative patches meet the requirements of the IVI >> Foundation to implement the library based on the usbtmc driver. >> >> Improvements in the data transfer rate of over 130 MByte/s for >> usb 3.x connections have been measured. >> >> Guido Kiener, Dave Penkler, Steve Bayless (22): >> usb: usbtmc: Add ioctl for generic requests on control >> usb: usbtmc: Add ioctl for vendor specific write >> usb: usbtmc: Add ioctl USBTMC_IOCTL_WRITE_RESULT >> usb: usbtmc: Add ioctl for vendor specific read >> usb: usbtmc: Add ioctl USBTMC_IOCTL_CANCEL_IO >> usb: usbtmc: Add ioctl USBTMC_IOCTL_CLEANUP_IO >> usb: usbtmc: Fix suspend/resume >> usb: usbtmc: Add ioctl USBTMC488_IOCTL_WAIT_SRQ >> usb: usbtmc: add ioctl USBTMC_IOCTL_MSG_IN_ATTR >> usb: usbtmc: Add ioctl USBTMC_IOCTL_AUTO_ABORT >> usb: usbtmc: Optimize usbtmc_write >> usb: usbtmc: Optimize usbtmc_read >> usb: usbtmc: Fix ioctl USBTMC_IOCTL_CLEAR >> usb: usbtmc: Fix ioctl USBTMC_IOCTL_ABORT_BULK_IN >> usb: usbtmc: Fix ioctl USBTMC_IOCTL_ABORT_BULK_OUT >> usb: usbtmc: Replace USBTMC_TIMEOUT macros for control messages >> usb: usbtmc: Add ioctl USBTMC_IOCTL_API_VERSION >> usb: usbtmc: Update ioctl-number.txt >> usb: usbtmc: Remove redundant code >> usb: usbtmc: Remove redundant macro USBTMC_SIZE_IOBUFFER >> usb: usbtmc: Fix split quoted string in debug message >> usb: usbtmc: Remove sysfs group TermChar and auto_abort >> >> .../ABI/stable/sysfs-driver-usb-usbtmc | 35 - >> Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt | 2 +- >> drivers/usb/class/usbtmc.c | 1652 +++++++++++++---- >> include/uapi/linux/usb/tmc.h | 41 + >> 4 files changed, 1291 insertions(+), 439 deletions(-) > > What changed from v3 of this patch set? That needs to be listed > somewhere, right? > v3 included patch "usb: usbtmc: Add support for 32 bit compat applications" which you already have added to your usb-next branch. You did not accept (2nd and now 1st) patch "usb: usbtmc: Add ioctl for generic requests on control" which had a superfluous "#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT". So v4 just removed this superfluous "#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT" without any change of further descriptions. Regards, -Guido -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html