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<book id="Linux-USB-API">
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<bookinfo>
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<title>The Linux-USB Host Side API</title>
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<legalnotice>
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<para>
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This documentation is free software; you can redistribute
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it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
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License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
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version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
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version.
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</para>
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<para>
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be
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useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
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warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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See the GNU General Public License for more details.
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</para>
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<para>
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
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License along with this program; if not, write to the Free
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Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
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MA 02111-1307 USA
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</para>
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<para>
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For more details see the file COPYING in the source
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distribution of Linux.
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</para>
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</legalnotice>
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</bookinfo>
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<toc></toc>
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<chapter id="intro">
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<title>Introduction to USB on Linux</title>
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<para>A Universal Serial Bus (USB) is used to connect a host,
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such as a PC or workstation, to a number of peripheral
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devices. USB uses a tree structure, with the host at the
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root (the system's master), hubs as interior nodes, and
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peripheral devices as leaves (and slaves).
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Modern PCs support several such trees of USB devices, usually
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one USB 2.0 tree (480 Mbit/sec each) with
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a few USB 1.1 trees (12 Mbit/sec each) that are used when you
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connect a USB 1.1 device directly to the machine's "root hub".
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</para>
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<para>That master/slave asymmetry was designed in part for
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ease of use. It is not physically possible to assemble
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(legal) USB cables incorrectly: all upstream "to-the-host"
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connectors are the rectangular type, matching the sockets on
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root hubs, and the downstream type are the squarish type
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(or they are built in to the peripheral).
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Software doesn't need to deal with distributed autoconfiguration
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since the pre-designated master node manages all that.
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At the electrical level, bus protocol overhead is reduced by
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eliminating arbitration and moving scheduling into host software.
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</para>
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<para>USB 1.0 was announced in January 1996, and was revised
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as USB 1.1 (with improvements in hub specification and
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support for interrupt-out transfers) in September 1998.
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USB 2.0 was released in April 2000, including high speed
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transfers and transaction translating hubs (used for USB 1.1
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and 1.0 backward compatibility).
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</para>
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<para>USB support was added to Linux early in the 2.2 kernel series
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shortly before the 2.3 development forked off. Updates
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from 2.3 were regularly folded back into 2.2 releases, bringing
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new features such as <filename>/sbin/hotplug</filename> support,
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more drivers, and more robustness.
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The 2.5 kernel series continued such improvements, and also
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worked on USB 2.0 support,
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higher performance,
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better consistency between host controller drivers,
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API simplification (to make bugs less likely),
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and providing internal "kerneldoc" documentation.
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</para>
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<para>Linux can run inside USB devices as well as on
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the hosts that control the devices.
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Because the Linux 2.x USB support evolved to support mass market
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platforms such as Apple Macintosh or PC-compatible systems,
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it didn't address design concerns for those types of USB systems.
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So it can't be used inside mass-market PDAs, or other peripherals.
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USB device drivers running inside those Linux peripherals
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don't do the same things as the ones running inside hosts,
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and so they've been given a different name:
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they're called <emphasis>gadget drivers</emphasis>.
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This document does not present gadget drivers.
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</para>
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</chapter>
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<chapter id="host">
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<title>USB Host-Side API Model</title>
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<para>Within the kernel,
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host-side drivers for USB devices talk to the "usbcore" APIs.
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There are two types of public "usbcore" APIs, targetted at two different
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layers of USB driver. Those are
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<emphasis>general purpose</emphasis> drivers, exposed through
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driver frameworks such as block, character, or network devices;
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and drivers that are <emphasis>part of the core</emphasis>,
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which are involved in managing a USB bus.
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Such core drivers include the <emphasis>hub</emphasis> driver,
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which manages trees of USB devices, and several different kinds
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of <emphasis>host controller driver (HCD)</emphasis>,
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which control individual busses.
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</para>
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<para>The device model seen by USB drivers is relatively complex.
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</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>USB supports four kinds of data transfer
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(control, bulk, interrupt, and isochronous). Two transfer
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types use bandwidth as it's available (control and bulk),
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while the other two types of transfer (interrupt and isochronous)
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are scheduled to provide guaranteed bandwidth.
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</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>The device description model includes one or more
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"configurations" per device, only one of which is active at a time.
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Devices that are capable of high speed operation must also support
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full speed configurations, along with a way to ask about the
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"other speed" configurations that might be used.
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</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Configurations have one or more "interface", each
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of which may have "alternate settings". Interfaces may be
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standardized by USB "Class" specifications, or may be specific to
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a vendor or device.</para>
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<para>USB device drivers actually bind to interfaces, not devices.
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Think of them as "interface drivers", though you
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may not see many devices where the distinction is important.
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<emphasis>Most USB devices are simple, with only one configuration,
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one interface, and one alternate setting.</emphasis>
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</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Interfaces have one or more "endpoints", each of
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which supports one type and direction of data transfer such as
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"bulk out" or "interrupt in". The entire configuration may have
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up to sixteen endpoints in each direction, allocated as needed
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among all the interfaces.
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</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Data transfer on USB is packetized; each endpoint
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has a maximum packet size.
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Drivers must often be aware of conventions such as flagging the end
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of bulk transfers using "short" (including zero length) packets.
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</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>The Linux USB API supports synchronous calls for
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control and bulk messaging.
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It also supports asynchnous calls for all kinds of data transfer,
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using request structures called "URBs" (USB Request Blocks).
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</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<para>Accordingly, the USB Core API exposed to device drivers
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covers quite a lot of territory. You'll probably need to consult
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the USB 2.0 specification, available online from www.usb.org at
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no cost, as well as class or device specifications.
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</para>
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<para>The only host-side drivers that actually touch hardware
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(reading/writing registers, handling IRQs, and so on) are the HCDs.
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In theory, all HCDs provide the same functionality through the same
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API. In practice, that's becoming more true on the 2.5 kernels,
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but there are still differences that crop up especially with
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fault handling. Different controllers don't necessarily report
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the same aspects of failures, and recovery from faults (including
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software-induced ones like unlinking an URB) isn't yet fully
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consistent.
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Device driver authors should make a point of doing disconnect
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testing (while the device is active) with each different host
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controller driver, to make sure drivers don't have bugs of
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their own as well as to make sure they aren't relying on some
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HCD-specific behavior.
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(You will need external USB 1.1 and/or
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USB 2.0 hubs to perform all those tests.)
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</para>
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</chapter>
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<chapter><title>USB-Standard Types</title>
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<para>In <filename><linux/usb_ch9.h></filename> you will find
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the USB data types defined in chapter 9 of the USB specification.
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These data types are used throughout USB, and in APIs including
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this host side API, gadget APIs, and usbfs.
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</para>
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!Iinclude/linux/usb_ch9.h
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</chapter>
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<chapter><title>Host-Side Data Types and Macros</title>
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<para>The host side API exposes several layers to drivers, some of
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which are more necessary than others.
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These support lifecycle models for host side drivers
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and devices, and support passing buffers through usbcore to
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some HCD that performs the I/O for the device driver.
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</para>
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!Iinclude/linux/usb.h
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</chapter>
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<chapter><title>USB Core APIs</title>
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<para>There are two basic I/O models in the USB API.
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The most elemental one is asynchronous: drivers submit requests
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in the form of an URB, and the URB's completion callback
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handle the next step.
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All USB transfer types support that model, although there
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are special cases for control URBs (which always have setup
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and status stages, but may not have a data stage) and
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isochronous URBs (which allow large packets and include
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per-packet fault reports).
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Built on top of that is synchronous API support, where a
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driver calls a routine that allocates one or more URBs,
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submits them, and waits until they complete.
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There are synchronous wrappers for single-buffer control
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and bulk transfers (which are awkward to use in some
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driver disconnect scenarios), and for scatterlist based
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streaming i/o (bulk or interrupt).
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</para>
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<para>USB drivers need to provide buffers that can be
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used for DMA, although they don't necessarily need to
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provide the DMA mapping themselves.
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There are APIs to use used when allocating DMA buffers,
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which can prevent use of bounce buffers on some systems.
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In some cases, drivers may be able to rely on 64bit DMA
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to eliminate another kind of bounce buffer.
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</para>
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!Edrivers/usb/core/urb.c
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!Edrivers/usb/core/message.c
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!Edrivers/usb/core/file.c
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!Edrivers/usb/core/driver.c
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!Edrivers/usb/core/usb.c
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!Edrivers/usb/core/hub.c
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</chapter>
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<chapter><title>Host Controller APIs</title>
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<para>These APIs are only for use by host controller drivers,
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most of which implement standard register interfaces such as
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EHCI, OHCI, or UHCI.
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UHCI was one of the first interfaces, designed by Intel and
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also used by VIA; it doesn't do much in hardware.
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OHCI was designed later, to have the hardware do more work
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(bigger transfers, tracking protocol state, and so on).
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EHCI was designed with USB 2.0; its design has features that
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resemble OHCI (hardware does much more work) as well as
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UHCI (some parts of ISO support, TD list processing).
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</para>
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<para>There are host controllers other than the "big three",
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although most PCI based controllers (and a few non-PCI based
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ones) use one of those interfaces.
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Not all host controllers use DMA; some use PIO, and there
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is also a simulator.
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</para>
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<para>The same basic APIs are available to drivers for all
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those controllers.
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For historical reasons they are in two layers:
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<structname>struct usb_bus</structname> is a rather thin
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layer that became available in the 2.2 kernels, while
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<structname>struct usb_hcd</structname> is a more featureful
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layer (available in later 2.4 kernels and in 2.5) that
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lets HCDs share common code, to shrink driver size
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and significantly reduce hcd-specific behaviors.
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</para>
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!Edrivers/usb/core/hcd.c
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!Edrivers/usb/core/hcd-pci.c
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!Idrivers/usb/core/buffer.c
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</chapter>
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<chapter>
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<title>The USB Filesystem (usbfs)</title>
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<para>This chapter presents the Linux <emphasis>usbfs</emphasis>.
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You may prefer to avoid writing new kernel code for your
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USB driver; that's the problem that usbfs set out to solve.
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User mode device drivers are usually packaged as applications
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or libraries, and may use usbfs through some programming library
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that wraps it. Such libraries include
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<ulink url="http://libusb.sourceforge.net">libusb</ulink>
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for C/C++, and
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<ulink url="http://jUSB.sourceforge.net">jUSB</ulink> for Java.
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</para>
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<note><title>Unfinished</title>
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<para>This particular documentation is incomplete,
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especially with respect to the asynchronous mode.
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As of kernel 2.5.66 the code and this (new) documentation
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need to be cross-reviewed.
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</para>
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</note>
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<para>Configure usbfs into Linux kernels by enabling the
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<emphasis>USB filesystem</emphasis> option (CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS),
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and you get basic support for user mode USB device drivers.
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Until relatively recently it was often (confusingly) called
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<emphasis>usbdevfs</emphasis> although it wasn't solving what
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<emphasis>devfs</emphasis> was.
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Every USB device will appear in usbfs, regardless of whether or
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not it has a kernel driver; but only devices with kernel drivers
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show up in devfs.
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</para>
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<sect1>
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<title>What files are in "usbfs"?</title>
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<para>Conventionally mounted at
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<filename>/proc/bus/usb</filename>, usbfs
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features include:
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para><filename>/proc/bus/usb/devices</filename>
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... a text file
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showing each of the USB devices on known to the kernel,
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and their configuration descriptors.
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You can also poll() this to learn about new devices.
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</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><filename>/proc/bus/usb/BBB/DDD</filename>
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... magic files
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exposing the each device's configuration descriptors, and
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supporting a series of ioctls for making device requests,
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including I/O to devices. (Purely for access by programs.)
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</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</para>
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<para> Each bus is given a number (BBB) based on when it was
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enumerated; within each bus, each device is given a similar
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number (DDD).
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Those BBB/DDD paths are not "stable" identifiers;
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expect them to change even if you always leave the devices
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plugged in to the same hub port.
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<emphasis>Don't even think of saving these in application
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configuration files.</emphasis>
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Stable identifiers are available, for user mode applications
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that want to use them. HID and networking devices expose
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these stable IDs, so that for example you can be sure that
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you told the right UPS to power down its second server.
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"usbfs" doesn't (yet) expose those IDs.
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</para>
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</sect1>
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<sect1>
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<title>Mounting and Access Control</title>
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<para>There are a number of mount options for usbfs, which will
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be of most interest to you if you need to override the default
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access control policy.
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That policy is that only root may read or write device files
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(<filename>/proc/bus/BBB/DDD</filename>) although anyone may read
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the <filename>devices</filename>
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or <filename>drivers</filename> files.
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I/O requests to the device also need the CAP_SYS_RAWIO capability,
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</para>
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<para>The significance of that is that by default, all user mode
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device drivers need super-user privileges.
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You can change modes or ownership in a driver setup
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when the device hotplugs, or maye just start the
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driver right then, as a privileged server (or some activity
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within one).
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That's the most secure approach for multi-user systems,
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but for single user systems ("trusted" by that user)
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it's more convenient just to grant everyone all access
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(using the <emphasis>devmode=0666</emphasis> option)
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so the driver can start whenever it's needed.
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</para>
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<para>The mount options for usbfs, usable in /etc/fstab or
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in command line invocations of <emphasis>mount</emphasis>, are:
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><emphasis>busgid</emphasis>=NNNNN</term>
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<listitem><para>Controls the GID used for the
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/proc/bus/usb/BBB
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directories. (Default: 0)</para></listitem></varlistentry>
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<varlistentry><term><emphasis>busmode</emphasis>=MMM</term>
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<listitem><para>Controls the file mode used for the
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/proc/bus/usb/BBB
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directories. (Default: 0555)
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</para></listitem></varlistentry>
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<varlistentry><term><emphasis>busuid</emphasis>=NNNNN</term>
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<listitem><para>Controls the UID used for the
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/proc/bus/usb/BBB
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directories. (Default: 0)</para></listitem></varlistentry>
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<varlistentry><term><emphasis>devgid</emphasis>=NNNNN</term>
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<listitem><para>Controls the GID used for the
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/proc/bus/usb/BBB/DDD
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files. (Default: 0)</para></listitem></varlistentry>
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<varlistentry><term><emphasis>devmode</emphasis>=MMM</term>
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<listitem><para>Controls the file mode used for the
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/proc/bus/usb/BBB/DDD
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files. (Default: 0644)</para></listitem></varlistentry>
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<varlistentry><term><emphasis>devuid</emphasis>=NNNNN</term>
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<listitem><para>Controls the UID used for the
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/proc/bus/usb/BBB/DDD
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files. (Default: 0)</para></listitem></varlistentry>
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<varlistentry><term><emphasis>listgid</emphasis>=NNNNN</term>
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<listitem><para>Controls the GID used for the
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/proc/bus/usb/devices and drivers files.
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(Default: 0)</para></listitem></varlistentry>
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<varlistentry><term><emphasis>listmode</emphasis>=MMM</term>
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<listitem><para>Controls the file mode used for the
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/proc/bus/usb/devices and drivers files.
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(Default: 0444)</para></listitem></varlistentry>
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<varlistentry><term><emphasis>listuid</emphasis>=NNNNN</term>
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<listitem><para>Controls the UID used for the
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/proc/bus/usb/devices and drivers files.
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(Default: 0)</para></listitem></varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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</para>
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<para>Note that many Linux distributions hard-wire the mount options
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for usbfs in their init scripts, such as
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<filename>/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit</filename>,
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rather than making it easy to set this per-system
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policy in <filename>/etc/fstab</filename>.
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</para>
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</sect1>
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<sect1>
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<title>/proc/bus/usb/devices</title>
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<para>This file is handy for status viewing tools in user
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mode, which can scan the text format and ignore most of it.
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More detailed device status (including class and vendor
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status) is available from device-specific files.
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For information about the current format of this file,
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see the
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<filename>Documentation/usb/proc_usb_info.txt</filename>
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file in your Linux kernel sources.
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</para>
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<para>Otherwise the main use for this file from programs
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is to poll() it to get notifications of usb devices
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as they're plugged or unplugged.
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To see what changed, you'd need to read the file and
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compare "before" and "after" contents, scan the filesystem,
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or see its hotplug event.
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</para>
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</sect1>
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<sect1>
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<title>/proc/bus/usb/BBB/DDD</title>
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<para>Use these files in one of these basic ways:
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</para>
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|
<para><emphasis>They can be read,</emphasis>
|
|
producing first the device descriptor
|
|
(18 bytes) and then the descriptors for the current configuration.
|
|
See the USB 2.0 spec for details about those binary data formats.
|
|
You'll need to convert most multibyte values from little endian
|
|
format to your native host byte order, although a few of the
|
|
fields in the device descriptor (both of the BCD-encoded fields,
|
|
and the vendor and product IDs) will be byteswapped for you.
|
|
Note that configuration descriptors include descriptors for
|
|
interfaces, altsettings, endpoints, and maybe additional
|
|
class descriptors.
|
|
</para>
|
|
|
|
<para><emphasis>Perform USB operations</emphasis> using
|
|
<emphasis>ioctl()</emphasis> requests to make endpoint I/O
|
|
requests (synchronously or asynchronously) or manage
|
|
the device.
|
|
These requests need the CAP_SYS_RAWIO capability,
|
|
as well as filesystem access permissions.
|
|
Only one ioctl request can be made on one of these
|
|
device files at a time.
|
|
This means that if you are synchronously reading an endpoint
|
|
from one thread, you won't be able to write to a different
|
|
endpoint from another thread until the read completes.
|
|
This works for <emphasis>half duplex</emphasis> protocols,
|
|
but otherwise you'd use asynchronous i/o requests.
|
|
</para>
|
|
|
|
</sect1>
|
|
|
|
|
|
<sect1>
|
|
<title>Life Cycle of User Mode Drivers</title>
|
|
|
|
<para>Such a driver first needs to find a device file
|
|
for a device it knows how to handle.
|
|
Maybe it was told about it because a
|
|
<filename>/sbin/hotplug</filename> event handling agent
|
|
chose that driver to handle the new device.
|
|
Or maybe it's an application that scans all the
|
|
/proc/bus/usb device files, and ignores most devices.
|
|
In either case, it should <function>read()</function> all
|
|
the descriptors from the device file,
|
|
and check them against what it knows how to handle.
|
|
It might just reject everything except a particular
|
|
vendor and product ID, or need a more complex policy.
|
|
</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>Never assume there will only be one such device
|
|
on the system at a time!
|
|
If your code can't handle more than one device at
|
|
a time, at least detect when there's more than one, and
|
|
have your users choose which device to use.
|
|
</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>Once your user mode driver knows what device to use,
|
|
it interacts with it in either of two styles.
|
|
The simple style is to make only control requests; some
|
|
devices don't need more complex interactions than those.
|
|
(An example might be software using vendor-specific control
|
|
requests for some initialization or configuration tasks,
|
|
with a kernel driver for the rest.)
|
|
</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>More likely, you need a more complex style driver:
|
|
one using non-control endpoints, reading or writing data
|
|
and claiming exclusive use of an interface.
|
|
<emphasis>Bulk</emphasis> transfers are easiest to use,
|
|
but only their sibling <emphasis>interrupt</emphasis> transfers
|
|
work with low speed devices.
|
|
Both interrupt and <emphasis>isochronous</emphasis> transfers
|
|
offer service guarantees because their bandwidth is reserved.
|
|
Such "periodic" transfers are awkward to use through usbfs,
|
|
unless you're using the asynchronous calls. However, interrupt
|
|
transfers can also be used in a synchronous "one shot" style.
|
|
</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>Your user-mode driver should never need to worry
|
|
about cleaning up request state when the device is
|
|
disconnected, although it should close its open file
|
|
descriptors as soon as it starts seeing the ENODEV
|
|
errors.
|
|
</para>
|
|
|
|
</sect1>
|
|
|
|
<sect1><title>The ioctl() Requests</title>
|
|
|
|
<para>To use these ioctls, you need to include the following
|
|
headers in your userspace program:
|
|
<programlisting>#include <linux/usb.h>
|
|
#include <linux/usbdevice_fs.h>
|
|
#include <asm/byteorder.h></programlisting>
|
|
The standard USB device model requests, from "Chapter 9" of
|
|
the USB 2.0 specification, are automatically included from
|
|
the <filename><linux/usb_ch9.h></filename> header.
|
|
</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>Unless noted otherwise, the ioctl requests
|
|
described here will
|
|
update the modification time on the usbfs file to which
|
|
they are applied (unless they fail).
|
|
A return of zero indicates success; otherwise, a
|
|
standard USB error code is returned. (These are
|
|
documented in
|
|
<filename>Documentation/usb/error-codes.txt</filename>
|
|
in your kernel sources.)
|
|
</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>Each of these files multiplexes access to several
|
|
I/O streams, one per endpoint.
|
|
Each device has one control endpoint (endpoint zero)
|
|
which supports a limited RPC style RPC access.
|
|
Devices are configured
|
|
by khubd (in the kernel) setting a device-wide
|
|
<emphasis>configuration</emphasis> that affects things
|
|
like power consumption and basic functionality.
|
|
The endpoints are part of USB <emphasis>interfaces</emphasis>,
|
|
which may have <emphasis>altsettings</emphasis>
|
|
affecting things like which endpoints are available.
|
|
Many devices only have a single configuration and interface,
|
|
so drivers for them will ignore configurations and altsettings.
|
|
</para>
|
|
|
|
|
|
<sect2>
|
|
<title>Management/Status Requests</title>
|
|
|
|
<para>A number of usbfs requests don't deal very directly
|
|
with device I/O.
|
|
They mostly relate to device management and status.
|
|
These are all synchronous requests.
|
|
</para>
|
|
|
|
<variablelist>
|
|
|
|
<varlistentry><term>USBDEVFS_CLAIMINTERFACE</term>
|
|
<listitem><para>This is used to force usbfs to
|
|
claim a specific interface,
|
|
which has not previously been claimed by usbfs or any other
|
|
kernel driver.
|
|
The ioctl parameter is an integer holding the number of
|
|
the interface (bInterfaceNumber from descriptor).
|
|
</para><para>
|
|
Note that if your driver doesn't claim an interface
|
|
before trying to use one of its endpoints, and no
|
|
other driver has bound to it, then the interface is
|
|
automatically claimed by usbfs.
|
|
</para><para>
|
|
This claim will be released by a RELEASEINTERFACE ioctl,
|
|
or by closing the file descriptor.
|
|
File modification time is not updated by this request.
|
|
</para></listitem></varlistentry>
|
|
|
|
<varlistentry><term>USBDEVFS_CONNECTINFO</term>
|
|
<listitem><para>Says whether the device is lowspeed.
|
|
The ioctl parameter points to a structure like this:
|
|
<programlisting>struct usbdevfs_connectinfo {
|
|
unsigned int devnum;
|
|
unsigned char slow;
|
|
}; </programlisting>
|
|
File modification time is not updated by this request.
|
|
</para><para>
|
|
<emphasis>You can't tell whether a "not slow"
|
|
device is connected at high speed (480 MBit/sec)
|
|
or just full speed (12 MBit/sec).</emphasis>
|
|
You should know the devnum value already,
|
|
it's the DDD value of the device file name.
|
|
</para></listitem></varlistentry>
|
|
|
|
<varlistentry><term>USBDEVFS_GETDRIVER</term>
|
|
<listitem><para>Returns the name of the kernel driver
|
|
bound to a given interface (a string). Parameter
|
|
is a pointer to this structure, which is modified:
|
|
<programlisting>struct usbdevfs_getdriver {
|
|
unsigned int interface;
|
|
char driver[USBDEVFS_MAXDRIVERNAME + 1];
|
|
};</programlisting>
|
|
File modification time is not updated by this request.
|
|
</para></listitem></varlistentry>
|
|
|
|
<varlistentry><term>USBDEVFS_IOCTL</term>
|
|
<listitem><para>Passes a request from userspace through
|
|
to a kernel driver that has an ioctl entry in the
|
|
<emphasis>struct usb_driver</emphasis> it registered.
|
|
<programlisting>struct usbdevfs_ioctl {
|
|
int ifno;
|
|
int ioctl_code;
|
|
void *data;
|
|
};
|
|
|
|
/* user mode call looks like this.
|
|
* 'request' becomes the driver->ioctl() 'code' parameter.
|
|
* the size of 'param' is encoded in 'request', and that data
|
|
* is copied to or from the driver->ioctl() 'buf' parameter.
|
|
*/
|
|
static int
|
|
usbdev_ioctl (int fd, int ifno, unsigned request, void *param)
|
|
{
|
|
struct usbdevfs_ioctl wrapper;
|
|
|
|
wrapper.ifno = ifno;
|
|
wrapper.ioctl_code = request;
|
|
wrapper.data = param;
|
|
|
|
return ioctl (fd, USBDEVFS_IOCTL, &wrapper);
|
|
} </programlisting>
|
|
File modification time is not updated by this request.
|
|
</para><para>
|
|
This request lets kernel drivers talk to user mode code
|
|
through filesystem operations even when they don't create
|
|
a charactor or block special device.
|
|
It's also been used to do things like ask devices what
|
|
device special file should be used.
|
|
Two pre-defined ioctls are used
|
|
to disconnect and reconnect kernel drivers, so
|
|
that user mode code can completely manage binding
|
|
and configuration of devices.
|
|
</para></listitem></varlistentry>
|
|
|
|
<varlistentry><term>USBDEVFS_RELEASEINTERFACE</term>
|
|
<listitem><para>This is used to release the claim usbfs
|
|
made on interface, either implicitly or because of a
|
|
USBDEVFS_CLAIMINTERFACE call, before the file
|
|
descriptor is closed.
|
|
The ioctl parameter is an integer holding the number of
|
|
the interface (bInterfaceNumber from descriptor);
|
|
File modification time is not updated by this request.
|
|
</para><warning><para>
|
|
<emphasis>No security check is made to ensure
|
|
that the task which made the claim is the one
|
|
which is releasing it.
|
|
This means that user mode driver may interfere
|
|
other ones. </emphasis>
|
|
</para></warning></listitem></varlistentry>
|
|
|
|
<varlistentry><term>USBDEVFS_RESETEP</term>
|
|
<listitem><para>Resets the data toggle value for an endpoint
|
|
(bulk or interrupt) to DATA0.
|
|
The ioctl parameter is an integer endpoint number
|
|
(1 to 15, as identified in the endpoint descriptor),
|
|
with USB_DIR_IN added if the device's endpoint sends
|
|
data to the host.
|
|
</para><warning><para>
|
|
<emphasis>Avoid using this request.
|
|
It should probably be removed.</emphasis>
|
|
Using it typically means the device and driver will lose
|
|
toggle synchronization. If you really lost synchronization,
|
|
you likely need to completely handshake with the device,
|
|
using a request like CLEAR_HALT
|
|
or SET_INTERFACE.
|
|
</para></warning></listitem></varlistentry>
|
|
|
|
</variablelist>
|
|
|
|
</sect2>
|
|
|
|
<sect2>
|
|
<title>Synchronous I/O Support</title>
|
|
|
|
<para>Synchronous requests involve the kernel blocking
|
|
until until the user mode request completes, either by
|
|
finishing successfully or by reporting an error.
|
|
In most cases this is the simplest way to use usbfs,
|
|
although as noted above it does prevent performing I/O
|
|
to more than one endpoint at a time.
|
|
</para>
|
|
|
|
<variablelist>
|
|
|
|
<varlistentry><term>USBDEVFS_BULK</term>
|
|
<listitem><para>Issues a bulk read or write request to the
|
|
device.
|
|
The ioctl parameter is a pointer to this structure:
|
|
<programlisting>struct usbdevfs_bulktransfer {
|
|
unsigned int ep;
|
|
unsigned int len;
|
|
unsigned int timeout; /* in milliseconds */
|
|
void *data;
|
|
};</programlisting>
|
|
</para><para>The "ep" value identifies a
|
|
bulk endpoint number (1 to 15, as identified in an endpoint
|
|
descriptor),
|
|
masked with USB_DIR_IN when referring to an endpoint which
|
|
sends data to the host from the device.
|
|
The length of the data buffer is identified by "len";
|
|
Recent kernels support requests up to about 128KBytes.
|
|
<emphasis>FIXME say how read length is returned,
|
|
and how short reads are handled.</emphasis>.
|
|
</para></listitem></varlistentry>
|
|
|
|
<varlistentry><term>USBDEVFS_CLEAR_HALT</term>
|
|
<listitem><para>Clears endpoint halt (stall) and
|
|
resets the endpoint toggle. This is only
|
|
meaningful for bulk or interrupt endpoints.
|
|
The ioctl parameter is an integer endpoint number
|
|
(1 to 15, as identified in an endpoint descriptor),
|
|
masked with USB_DIR_IN when referring to an endpoint which
|
|
sends data to the host from the device.
|
|
</para><para>
|
|
Use this on bulk or interrupt endpoints which have
|
|
stalled, returning <emphasis>-EPIPE</emphasis> status
|
|
to a data transfer request.
|
|
Do not issue the control request directly, since
|
|
that could invalidate the host's record of the
|
|
data toggle.
|
|
</para></listitem></varlistentry>
|
|
|
|
<varlistentry><term>USBDEVFS_CONTROL</term>
|
|
<listitem><para>Issues a control request to the device.
|
|
The ioctl parameter points to a structure like this:
|
|
<programlisting>struct usbdevfs_ctrltransfer {
|
|
__u8 bRequestType;
|
|
__u8 bRequest;
|
|
__u16 wValue;
|
|
__u16 wIndex;
|
|
__u16 wLength;
|
|
__u32 timeout; /* in milliseconds */
|
|
void *data;
|
|
};</programlisting>
|
|
</para><para>
|
|
The first eight bytes of this structure are the contents
|
|
of the SETUP packet to be sent to the device; see the
|
|
USB 2.0 specification for details.
|
|
The bRequestType value is composed by combining a
|
|
USB_TYPE_* value, a USB_DIR_* value, and a
|
|
USB_RECIP_* value (from
|
|
<emphasis><linux/usb.h></emphasis>).
|
|
If wLength is nonzero, it describes the length of the data
|
|
buffer, which is either written to the device
|
|
(USB_DIR_OUT) or read from the device (USB_DIR_IN).
|
|
</para><para>
|
|
At this writing, you can't transfer more than 4 KBytes
|
|
of data to or from a device; usbfs has a limit, and
|
|
some host controller drivers have a limit.
|
|
(That's not usually a problem.)
|
|
<emphasis>Also</emphasis> there's no way to say it's
|
|
not OK to get a short read back from the device.
|
|
</para></listitem></varlistentry>
|
|
|
|
<varlistentry><term>USBDEVFS_RESET</term>
|
|
<listitem><para>Does a USB level device reset.
|
|
The ioctl parameter is ignored.
|
|
After the reset, this rebinds all device interfaces.
|
|
File modification time is not updated by this request.
|
|
</para><warning><para>
|
|
<emphasis>Avoid using this call</emphasis>
|
|
until some usbcore bugs get fixed,
|
|
since it does not fully synchronize device, interface,
|
|
and driver (not just usbfs) state.
|
|
</para></warning></listitem></varlistentry>
|
|
|
|
<varlistentry><term>USBDEVFS_SETINTERFACE</term>
|
|
<listitem><para>Sets the alternate setting for an
|
|
interface. The ioctl parameter is a pointer to a
|
|
structure like this:
|
|
<programlisting>struct usbdevfs_setinterface {
|
|
unsigned int interface;
|
|
unsigned int altsetting;
|
|
}; </programlisting>
|
|
File modification time is not updated by this request.
|
|
</para><para>
|
|
Those struct members are from some interface descriptor
|
|
applying to the current configuration.
|
|
The interface number is the bInterfaceNumber value, and
|
|
the altsetting number is the bAlternateSetting value.
|
|
(This resets each endpoint in the interface.)
|
|
</para></listitem></varlistentry>
|
|
|
|
<varlistentry><term>USBDEVFS_SETCONFIGURATION</term>
|
|
<listitem><para>Issues the
|
|
<function>usb_set_configuration</function> call
|
|
for the device.
|
|
The parameter is an integer holding the number of
|
|
a configuration (bConfigurationValue from descriptor).
|
|
File modification time is not updated by this request.
|
|
</para><warning><para>
|
|
<emphasis>Avoid using this call</emphasis>
|
|
until some usbcore bugs get fixed,
|
|
since it does not fully synchronize device, interface,
|
|
and driver (not just usbfs) state.
|
|
</para></warning></listitem></varlistentry>
|
|
|
|
</variablelist>
|
|
</sect2>
|
|
|
|
<sect2>
|
|
<title>Asynchronous I/O Support</title>
|
|
|
|
<para>As mentioned above, there are situations where it may be
|
|
important to initiate concurrent operations from user mode code.
|
|
This is particularly important for periodic transfers
|
|
(interrupt and isochronous), but it can be used for other
|
|
kinds of USB requests too.
|
|
In such cases, the asynchronous requests described here
|
|
are essential. Rather than submitting one request and having
|
|
the kernel block until it completes, the blocking is separate.
|
|
</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>These requests are packaged into a structure that
|
|
resembles the URB used by kernel device drivers.
|
|
(No POSIX Async I/O support here, sorry.)
|
|
It identifies the endpoint type (USBDEVFS_URB_TYPE_*),
|
|
endpoint (number, masked with USB_DIR_IN as appropriate),
|
|
buffer and length, and a user "context" value serving to
|
|
uniquely identify each request.
|
|
(It's usually a pointer to per-request data.)
|
|
Flags can modify requests (not as many as supported for
|
|
kernel drivers).
|
|
</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>Each request can specify a realtime signal number
|
|
(between SIGRTMIN and SIGRTMAX, inclusive) to request a
|
|
signal be sent when the request completes.
|
|
</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>When usbfs returns these urbs, the status value
|
|
is updated, and the buffer may have been modified.
|
|
Except for isochronous transfers, the actual_length is
|
|
updated to say how many bytes were transferred; if the
|
|
USBDEVFS_URB_DISABLE_SPD flag is set
|
|
("short packets are not OK"), if fewer bytes were read
|
|
than were requested then you get an error report.
|
|
</para>
|
|
|
|
<programlisting>struct usbdevfs_iso_packet_desc {
|
|
unsigned int length;
|
|
unsigned int actual_length;
|
|
unsigned int status;
|
|
};
|
|
|
|
struct usbdevfs_urb {
|
|
unsigned char type;
|
|
unsigned char endpoint;
|
|
int status;
|
|
unsigned int flags;
|
|
void *buffer;
|
|
int buffer_length;
|
|
int actual_length;
|
|
int start_frame;
|
|
int number_of_packets;
|
|
int error_count;
|
|
unsigned int signr;
|
|
void *usercontext;
|
|
struct usbdevfs_iso_packet_desc iso_frame_desc[];
|
|
};</programlisting>
|
|
|
|
<para> For these asynchronous requests, the file modification
|
|
time reflects when the request was initiated.
|
|
This contrasts with their use with the synchronous requests,
|
|
where it reflects when requests complete.
|
|
</para>
|
|
|
|
<variablelist>
|
|
|
|
<varlistentry><term>USBDEVFS_DISCARDURB</term>
|
|
<listitem><para>
|
|
<emphasis>TBS</emphasis>
|
|
File modification time is not updated by this request.
|
|
</para><para>
|
|
</para></listitem></varlistentry>
|
|
|
|
<varlistentry><term>USBDEVFS_DISCSIGNAL</term>
|
|
<listitem><para>
|
|
<emphasis>TBS</emphasis>
|
|
File modification time is not updated by this request.
|
|
</para><para>
|
|
</para></listitem></varlistentry>
|
|
|
|
<varlistentry><term>USBDEVFS_REAPURB</term>
|
|
<listitem><para>
|
|
<emphasis>TBS</emphasis>
|
|
File modification time is not updated by this request.
|
|
</para><para>
|
|
</para></listitem></varlistentry>
|
|
|
|
<varlistentry><term>USBDEVFS_REAPURBNDELAY</term>
|
|
<listitem><para>
|
|
<emphasis>TBS</emphasis>
|
|
File modification time is not updated by this request.
|
|
</para><para>
|
|
</para></listitem></varlistentry>
|
|
|
|
<varlistentry><term>USBDEVFS_SUBMITURB</term>
|
|
<listitem><para>
|
|
<emphasis>TBS</emphasis>
|
|
</para><para>
|
|
</para></listitem></varlistentry>
|
|
|
|
</variablelist>
|
|
</sect2>
|
|
|
|
</sect1>
|
|
|
|
</chapter>
|
|
|
|
</book>
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