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Message-ID: <20080206212354.GB5239@kroah.com>
Date:	Wed, 6 Feb 2008 13:23:54 -0800
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only

On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 03:43:26PM -0500, Jon Smirl wrote:
> There a company that is providing a common API for writting Windows
> and Linux drivers. Last time I was using a Macraigor JTAG it was based
> on this proprietary dual platform driver.
> 
> http://www.macraigor.com/cgi_bin/counters/unicounter.pl?name=counters/ocd_cmdr_linux&deliver=http://www.macraigor.biz/gnu/mcgr-hwsupport-4.8-0.i386.rpm
> 
> The dual platform driver was from Jungo.
> http://www.jungo.com/
> 
> WinDriver? USB for Linux automates and simplifies the development of
> user-mode Linux device drivers and hardware control applications for
> USB peripheral devices. No Linux kernel knowledge or kernel level
> programming required.

Yes, I know all about Jungo, and have never heard anything good about
them from either the Windows developers I know, or anyone who has tried
to get their stuff working on Linux using their framework.

I would not recommend their stuff at all, it's much easier to just write
a native Linux and Windows driver instead.  Especially with the new
Windows Driver Framework, which helps those developers out a lot more
these days.

thanks,

greg k-h
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