An advanced USB/IP including features: 1. Exporting device It allows to connect from device side. Many devices can be connected to remote with plug-and-play manner. EXISTING) - invites devices from application(vhci)-side +------+ +------------------+ device--+ STUB | | application/VHCI | +------+ +------------------+ 1) # usbipd ... start daemon = = = 2) # usbip list --local 3) # usbip bind <--- list bound devices --- 4) # usbip list --remote <--- import a device ------ 5) # usbip attach = = = X disconnected 6) # usbip detach 7) usbip unbind NEW) - dedicates devices from device(stub)-side +------+ +------------------+ device--+ STUB | | application/VHCI | +------+ +------------------+ 1) # usbipa ... start daemon = = = 2) # usbip list --local 3) # usbip connect --- export a device ------> = = = 4) # usbip disconnect --- un-export a device ---> You can add allow/deny rules with TCP wrappers (./configure --with-tcp-wrappers) and/or udev rules. 2. VHCI number of ports extension It extends number of ports limitaion in application (vhci) side by multiplying number of VHCI. Driver portion of static extension has been merged at 4.9-rc1. Userspace tools and dynamic extenstion are added. USBIP_VHCI_HC_PORTS: Number of ports per USB/IP virtual host controller. The default is 8. USBIP_VHCI_MAX_HCS: Maximum number of USB/IP virtual host controllers. The default is 1. USBIP_VHCI_INIT_HCS: Initial number of USB/IP virtual host controllers. The default is 1. 3. Cross platform device side node It adds porting of USB/IP device side command and daemon with libusb instead of stub driver. It allows to port device side node to other operation systems which are supported by libusb. tools/usb/usbip +-- src: command and daemon +-- libsrc: common, host driver interface and vhci driver interface +-- doc: manuals +-- libusb : implementation with libusb (newly added) +-- src: makes ../../src objects without stub driver dependent | code giving -DUSBIP_WITH_LIBUSB. +-- libsrc: makes ../../libsrc objects giving -DUSBIP_WITH_LIBUSB. | +-- dummy_device_driver.c : dummy host device driver +-- stub: stub driver emulation library with libusb. +-- os: OS dependent code. | +-- unix: unix dependent code used in libusb. | +-- win32: Win32 dependent cocde. +-- doc: manuals Make in tools/usb/usbip : original with stub driver in tools/usb/usbip/libusb : new with stub emulator with libusb ./configure --with-dummy-driver applies dummy host device driver instead of vUDC. Binary names usbip: command with stub/vhci driver (original) usbipd: daemon with vhci driver (original) usbipa: daemon with stub driver (new as 1) libusbip: command with stub emulator (new) libusbipd: daemon with stub emulator (new) 4. API to add arbitrary network protocol It introduces userspace API to add network protocols to USB/IP. The API allows to program to wrap USB/IP with arbitrary network protocol using network protocol library, for example, libwebsockets or Poco C++ for WebSocket. The detail of the API is written as manual pages. The shared libraries below are created. libusbip.so : common, as same as original libusbipc.so : for commands libusbipd.so : for device side daemon libusbipa.so : for application side daemon Device side libraries with libub are created by build at tools/usb/usbip/libusb. libusbip_libusb.so : common libusbip_stub.so : stub emulator with libusb libusdipc_libusb.so : for device side commands libusbipd_libusb.so : for device side daemon To enable the API, a driver to forward packets to userspace should be loaded. # modprobe usbip-host (original, device side) # modprobe vhci-hcd (original, application side) # modprobe usbip-ux (new, both device and application side) A simple example for USB/IP API using IPv4 socket is included. USB over WebSocket using OSSs are stored in github below. with Poco C++ : https://github.com/novimusica/usbws-poco with libwebsockets : https://github.com/novimusica/usbws-lws //