[Spice-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] Add a usbredir kernel module to remotely connect USB devices over IP.

[Alex Elsayed]

Alan Stern wrote:

> On Mon, 6 Jul 2015, Jeremy White wrote:
> 
>> Anything else fundamental to usbip that should inform the design of a
>> usbredir driver?  usbip appears to be based off a 2004 vintage of
>> dummy_hcd.  I'll look thoughtfully at the current dummy_hcd; please let
>> me know if there is anything else I should consider.
> 
> One thing that springs to mind is USB-3 streams.  When dummy-hcd was
> expanded to include USB-3, that was the major new ingredient.

Another thing that comes to mind is that the USB-IF has its own official 
standard for this kind of thing now, called Media-Agnostic USB[1]. In 
November of 2014 a driver[2] was posted, followed by a second version[3], 
and it is apparently being refined inside Intel[4].

[1] 
http://www.usb.org/developers/docs/devclass_docs/Media_Agnostic_USB_v1.0.zip
[2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1820297
[3] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.driver-project.devel/60498
[4] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.driver-project.devel/60757