Re: USB slave/master modification

From: Reinardt Behm (reinhardt.behm_at_t-online.de)
Date: 08/13/05 

Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 18:50:00 +0200

googlinggoogler@hotmail.com (googlinggoogler@hotmail.com) wrote at Saturday
13 August 2005 13:37 in comp.os.linux.development.system:

> Hiya,
>
> Basically my question is a little odd in the fact that I have a
> computer and I want to connect another computer to this via USB (type
> A, straight into the computer, no hardware except prehaps some diodes
> and stuff to prevent burn out)
>
> I basically want to force one of these computers USB ports to act as a
> slave, whislt the other acts as a USB master, and effectivly some how
> cause the slave to be a device so what I can fire usb protocol at the
> master from the slave for testing purposes.
>
> obviously id need to hack the drivers on the slave computer for this
> purpose, although is there a simple way?
>
> any tips or leads? how would you go about doing this?
>
> cheers
>
> David

There is no change with standard USB. Host and slave are very different
animals at the hardware level. Your only change would be USB-on-the-go
which implements some way of direct communiction between two USB masters.
But it will not help in your case since you will have a very different
protocoll 

-- 
Reinhardt Behm, Nauheim, Germany, reinhardt.behm@t-online.de

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