Did you hear about RDNIS being removed from the Linux kernel? Thoughts?
have you heard the recent news
RDNIS will get removed from linux kernel
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@Ming any comment?
honestly, it was nice to have it as it provided a form of ethernet in USB. very nifty when the board doesnt come with an ethernet port.
Given that one of the Implementations of RNDIS was called Horrendous (best said with a French Accent!) it gives a clue as to how loved it was. I have bad memories of trying to get it working to talk to Windows systems.
However, note that the functionality has not gone away. I am using CDC Ethernet to provide Ethernet over USB on the
g_ether module.
i didnt know that CDC had there ethernet subclass
how it different from NCM(have mostly worked ACM, NCM within CDC)?
is it with the emulation of ethernet frames?
From what I know (so needs fact checking) it sets up the usb bus as a transport and then sends Ethernet over that.
From a more practical view - I enable CDC-ECM (?) in my device drivers. It is in the same Kconfig section as RNDIS.
i see
also i just tried it
unlike NCM which gets detected as usbX
ECM seems to get detected as ethX
nicee
Thanks for bringing this up!