Hi,

I'm a former application developer at a big IT company.

Most of my private time I spend with semi-professional studio recording using Ubuntu Studio (Ardour). I bought a nice external sound device from Tascam called US-16x08 and it works very well. This device also contains some signal processing capabilities like a compressor and a parametric equalizer. But unfortunately there was no Linux driver available from the manufacturer and so I cant use there functionalities. So I started with a nightmare of re-engineering by monitoring USB communication via usbmon and wireshark.

Now after 3-4 weeks I'm able to completely control this device with a customized snd-usb-audio kernel module. Additionally I developed a tiny GUI mixer application to test my driver. But I'm not very familiar with non-coding aspects of driver deployment (documentation, deployment etc.).

Can some please help me with some hints/links, so that other users can benefit of my work?

regards Detlef