Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 6155] Dissector for the USB Integrated Circuit Card Interf
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6155
--- Comment #18 from Tyson Key <tyson.key@xxxxxxxxx> 2011-11-15 14:01:35 PST ---
Come to think of it, what happens if someone decides to run some other textual
protocol (e.g. NMEA 0183, as used by GPS receivers) over USB? Should we further
generalise things to become "USB Text", or build new, slightly-modified
dissectors (or even add preferences), to compensate?
(In reply to comment #17)
> (In reply to comment #15)
> > I do note that the usb-at dissector uses "USB/AT" (I think) for COL_PROTOCOL,
> > and "at..." as the filter names. It seems to me that it would be more
> > consistent to also change this dissector to use "USBAT" & "usbat..." instead.
>
> I implemented it that way in a proposed patch submitted in bug 5868. I thought
> maybe one day we could have other dissectors where we'd see AT traffic besides
> USB/AT, such as RS232/AT, for example. But if you think it's better to change
> it to USBAT, then I don't have a problem with that. There's nothing really
> "USB" about it though; in fact, we might just change it from packet-usb-at.c to
> packet-at.c.
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