ugen(4)

NAME

ugen - USB generic device support

SYNOPSIS

device ugen

DESCRIPTION

The ugen driver provides support for all USB devices that do

not have a
special driver. It supports access to all parts of the de

vice, but not
in a way that is as convenient as a special purpose driver.

There can be up to 127 USB devices connected to a USB bus.

Each USB
device can have up to 16 endpoints. Each of these endpoints

will communicate in one of four different modes: control, isochronous,

bulk, or
interrupt. Each of the endpoints will have a different de

vice node. The
four least significant bits in the minor device number de

termines which
endpoint the device accesses and the rest of the bits deter

mines which
USB device.

If an endpoint address is used both for input and output the

device can
be opened for both read or write.

To find out what endpoints that exist there are a series of

ioctl(2)
operation on the control endpoint that returns the USB de

scriptors of the
device, configurations, interfaces, and endpoints.

The control transfer mode can only happen on the control

endpoint which
is always endpoint 0. The control endpoint accepts request

and may
respond with an answer to such request. Control request are

issued by
ioctl(2) calls.

The bulk transfer mode can be in or out depending on the

endpoint. To
perform I/O on a bulk endpoint read(2) and write(2) should

be used. All
I/O operations on a bulk endpoint are unbuffered.

The interrupt transfer mode can be in or out depending on

the endpoint.
To perform I/O on an interrupt endpoint read(2) and write(2)

should be
used. A moderate amount of buffering is done by the driver.

All endpoints handle the following ioctl(2) calls:

USB_SET_SHORT_XFER (int)

Allow short read transfer. Normally a transfer from

the device
which is shorter than the request specified is re

ported as an
error.

USB_SET_TIMEOUT (int)

Set the timeout on the device operations, the time

is specified
in milliseconds. The value 0 is used to indicate

that there is
no timeout.

The control endpoint (endpoint 0) handles the following

ioctl(2) calls:

USB_GET_CONFIG (int)

Get the device configuration number.

USB_SET_CONFIG (int)

Set the device into the given configuration number.

This operation can only be performed when the con

trol endpoint is
the sole open endpoint.

USB_GET_ALTINTERFACE (struct usb_alt_interface)

Get the alternative setting number for the interface

with the
given index. The uai_config_index is ignored in

this call.

struct usb_alt_interface {

int uai_config_index;
int uai_interface_index;
int uai_alt_no;

};

USB_SET_ALTINTERFACE (struct usb_alt_interface)

Set the alternative setting to the given number in

the interface
with the given index. The uai_config_index is ig

nored in this
call.

This operation can only be performed when no end

points for the
interface are open.

USB_GET_NO_ALT (struct usb_alt_interface)

Return the number of different alternate settings in

the
uai_alt_no field.

USB_GET_DEVICE_DESC (usb_device_descriptor_t)

Return the device descriptor.

USB_GET_CONFIG_DESC (struct usb_config_desc)

Return the descriptor for the configuration with the

given index.
For convenience the current configuration can be

specified by
USB_CURRENT_CONFIG_INDEX.

struct usb_config_desc {

int ucd_config_index;
usb_config_descriptor_t ucd_desc;

};

USB_GET_INTERFACE_DESC (struct usb_interface_desc)

Return the interface descriptor for an interface

specified by its
configuration index, interface index, and alterna

tive index. For
convenience the current alternative can be specified

by
USB_CURRENT_ALT_INDEX.

struct usb_interface_desc {

int uid_config_index;
int uid_interface_index;
int uid_alt_index;
usb_interface_descriptor_t uid_desc;

};

USB_GET_ENDPOINT_DESC (struct usb_endpoint_desc)

Return the endpoint descriptor for the endpoint

specified by its
configuration index, interface index, alternative

index, and endpoint index.

struct usb_endpoint_desc {

int ued_config_index;
int ued_interface_index;
int ued_alt_index;
int ued_endpoint_index;
usb_endpoint_descriptor_t ued_desc;

};

USB_GET_FULL_DESC (struct usb_full_desc)

Return all the descriptors for the given configura

tion.

struct usb_full_desc {

int ufd_config_index;
u_int ufd_size;
u_char *ufd_data;

};
The ufd_data field should point to a memory area of

the size
given in the ufd_size field. The proper size can be

determined
by first issuing a USB_GET_CONFIG_DESC and inspect

ing the
wTotalLength field.

USB_GET_STRING_DESC (struct usb_string_desc)

Get a string descriptor for the given language ID

and string
index.

struct usb_string_desc {

int usd_string_index;
int usd_language_id;
usb_string_descriptor_t usd_desc;

};

USB_DO_REQUEST (struct usb_ctl_request)

Send a USB request to the device on the control end

point. Any
data sent to/from the device is located at ucr_data.

The size of
the transferred data is determined from the

ucr_request. The
ucr_addr field is ignored in this call. The

ucr_flags field can
be used to flag that the request is allowed to be

shorter than
the requested size, and the ucr_actlen will contain

the actual
size on completion.

struct usb_ctl_request {

int ucr_addr;
usb_device_request_t ucr_request;
void *ucr_data;
int ucr_flags;

#define USBD_SHORT_XFER_OK 0x04 /* allow

short reads */

int ucr_actlen; /* actual

length transferred */

};
This is a dangerous operation in that it can perform

arbitrary
operations on the device. Some of the most danger

ous (e.g.,
changing the device address) are not allowed.

USB_GET_DEVICEINFO (struct usb_device_info)

Get an information summary for the device. This

call will not
issue any USB transactions.

Note that there are two different ways of addressing config

urations,
interfaces, alternatives, and endpoints: by index or by num

ber. The
index is the ordinal number (starting from 0) of the de

scriptor as presented by the device. The number is the respective number

of the entity
as found in its descriptor. Enumeration of descriptors use

the index,
getting and setting typically uses numbers.

Example: all endpoints (except the control endpoint) for the

current configuration can be found by iterating the interface_index

from 0 to
config_desc->bNumInterface-1 and for each of these iterating

the
endpoint_index from 0 to interface_desc->bNumEndpoints. The

config_index
should set to USB_CURRENT_CONFIG_INDEX and alt_index should

be set to
USB_CURRENT_ALT_INDEX.

FILES

/dev/ugenN.EE Endpoint EE of de

vice N.

SEE ALSO

usb(4)

HISTORY

The ugen driver appeared in NetBSD 1.4.

BSD July 12, 1998

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