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“Yes, but don’t you worry - all of that can be covered in detail later.
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“Seems like there are so many things to know about the USB protocol, to be able to write the first USB driver itself - device configuration, interfaces, transfer pipes, their four types, and so many other symbols like T, B, S, … under a USB device specification,” sighed Shweta. Details about these and various others are available in the kernel source, in Documentation/usb/proc_usb_info.txt. For example, D for device, C for configuration, I for interface, E for endpoint, etc.
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Figure 4: USB device overviewĬoming back to the USB device sections (Figure 3), the first letter on each line represents the various parts of the USB device specification just explained. Figure 4 shows the complete pictorial representation of a valid USB device, based on the above explanation. Based on the type of information, the endpoints have four types: Control, Interrupt, Bulk and Isochronous.Īs per the USB protocol specification, all valid USB devices have an implicit special control end-point zero, the only bi-directional end-point. An end-point is like a pipe for transferring information either into or from the interface of the device, depending on the functionality. entry in the proc window output (Figure 3) shows the interface to driver mapping - a (none) indicating no associated driver.įor every interface, there would be one or more end-points. It is okay and fairly common to have a single USB device driver for all the interfaces of a USB device. So, unlike other device drivers, a USB device driver is typically associated/written per interface, rather than the device as a whole - meaning that one USB device may have multiple device drivers, and different device interfaces may have the same driver - though, of course, one interface can have a maximum of one driver only.
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So, say an MFD (multi-function device) USB printer can do printing, scanning and faxing, then it most likely would have at least three interfaces, one for each of the functions. There would be as many interfaces as the number of functions provided by the device. An interface corresponds to a function provided by the device. For every configuration, the device may have one or more interfaces. As such, Linux supports only one configuration per device - the default one. A configuration of a USB device is like a profile, where the default one is the commonly used one. All valid USB devices contain one or more configurations. To further decode these sections, a valid USB device needs to be understood first. Figure 3: USB's proc window snippet Decoding a USB device section The listing basically contains one such section for each valid USB device detected on the system. Figure 3 shows a typical snippet of the same, clipped around the pen drive-specific section. This enables the detected USB device details to be viewed in a more techno-friendly way through the /proc window, using cat /proc/bus/usb/devices. In many Linux distributions like Mandriva, Fedora,… the usbfs driver is loaded as part of the default configuration. A -v option to lsusbprovides detailed information. Figure 2 shows this, with and without the pen drive plugged in. Figure 1: USB subsystem in LinuxĪ basic listing of all detected USB devices can be obtained using the lsusb command, as root. Figure 1 shows a top-to-bottom view of the USB subsystem in Linux. The USB protocol formatted information about the USB device is then populated into the generic USB core layer (the usbcore driver) in kernel-space, thus enabling the detection of a USB device in kernel-space, even without having its specific driver.Īfter this, it is up to various drivers, interfaces, and applications (which are dependent on the various Linux distributions), to have the user-space view of the detected devices. The corresponding host controller driver would pick and translate the low-level physical layer information into higher-level USB protocol-specific information. Hardware-space detection is done by the USB host controller - typically a native bus device, like a PCI device on x86 systems. Whether a driver for a USB device is there or not on a Linux system, a valid USB device will always be detected at the hardware and kernel spaces of a USB-enabled Linux system, since it is designed (and detected) as per the USB protocol specifications. USB stick) that was at hand - a JetFlash from Transcend, with vendor ID 0x058f and product ID 0圆387. The fastest way to get the hang of it, and Pugs’ usual way, was to pick up a USB device, and write a driver for it, to experiment with.
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Pugs’ pen drive was the device Shweta was playing with, when both of them sat down to explore the world of USB drivers in Linux.
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This article, which is part of the series on Linux device drivers, gets you started with writing your first USB driver in Linux.