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28.Dd May 11, 1999
29.Dt USB 3
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm usb ,
33.Nm hid_get_report_desc ,
34.Nm hid_dispose_report_desc ,
35.Nm hid_start_parse ,
36.Nm hid_end_parse ,
37.Nm hid_get_item ,
38.Nm hid_report_size ,
39.Nm hid_locate ,
40.Nm hid_usage_page ,
41.Nm hid_usage_in_page ,
42.Nm hid_init ,
43.Nm hid_get_data ,
44.Nm hid_set_data
45.Nd USB HID access routines
46.Sh LIBRARY
47.Lb libusb
48.Sh SYNOPSIS
49.Fd #include <libusb.h>
50.Ft report_desc_t
51.Fn hid_get_report_desc "int file"
52.Ft void
53.Fn hid_dispose_report_desc "report_desc_t d"
54.Ft hid_data_t
55.Fn hid_start_parse "report_desc_t d" "int kindset"
56.Ft void
57.Fn hid_end_parse "hid_data_t s"
58.Ft int
59.Fn hid_get_item "hid_data_t s" "hid_item_t *h"
60.Ft int
61.Fn hid_report_size "report_desc_t d" "hid_kind_t k" "int *idp"
62.Ft int
63.Fn hid_locate "report_desc_t d" "u_int usage" "hid_kind_t k" "hid_item_t *h"
64.Ft char *
65.Fn hid_usage_page "int i"
66.Ft char *
67.Fn hid_usage_in_page "u_int u"
68.Ft void
69.Fn hid_init "char *file"
70.Ft int
71.Fn hid_get_data "void *data" "hid_item_t *h"
72.Ft void
73.Fn hid_set_data "void *data" "hid_item_t *h" "u_int data"
74.Sh DESCRIPTION
75The
76.Nm
77library provides routines to extract data from USB Human Interface Devices.
78.Ss INTRODUCTION
79USB HID devices send and receive data layed out in a device dependent
80way.  The
81.Nm
82library contains routines to extract the
83.Em report descriptor
84which contains the data layout information and then use this information.
85.Pp
86The routines can be divided into four parts: extraction of the descriptor,
87parsing of the descriptor, translating to/from symbolic names, and
88data manipulation.
89.Ss DESCRIPTOR FUNCTIONS
90A report descriptor can be obtained by calling
91.Fn hid_get_report_desc
92with a file descriptor obtained by opening a
93.Xr uhid 4
94device.
95When the report descriptor is no longer needed it should be freed
96by calling
97.Fn hid_dispose_report_desc .
98The type
99.Fa report_desc_t
100is opaque and should be used when calling the parsing functions.
101.Ss DESCRIPTOR PARSING FUNCTIONS
102To parse the report descriptor the
103.Fn hid_start_parse
104function should be called with a report descriptor and a set that
105describes which items that are interesting.  The set is obtained
106by or-ing together values
107.Fa "(1 << k)"
108where
109.Fa k
110is an item of type
111.Fa hid_kind_t .
112The function returns
113.Fa NULL
114if the initialization fails, otherwise an opaque value to be used
115in subsequent calls.
116After parsing the
117.Fn hid_end_parse
118function should be called to free internal data structures.
119.Pp
120To iterate through all the items in the report descriptor
121.Fn hid_get_item
122should be called while it returns a value greater than 0.
123When the report descriptor ends it will returns 0; a syntax
124error within the report descriptor will cause a return value less
125than 0.
126The struct pointed to by
127.Fa h
128will be filled with the relevant data for the item.
129The definition of
130.Fa hid_item_t
131can be found in
132.Pa <libusb.h>
133and the meaning of the components in the USB HID documentation.
134.Pp
135Data should be read/written to the device in the size of
136the report.  The size of a report (of a certain kind) can be
137computed by the
138.Fn hid_report_size
139function.  If the report is prefixed by an ID byte it is
140stored at
141.Fa idp ,
142otherwise it will contain 0.
143.Pp
144To locate a single item the
145.Fn hid_locate
146function can be used.  It should be given the usage code of
147the item and its kind and it will fill the item and return
148non-zero if the item was found.
149.Pp
150.Ss NAME TRANSLATION FUNCTIONS
151The function
152.Fn hid_usage_page
153will return the symbolic name of a usage page, and the function
154.Fn hid_usage_in_page
155will return the symbolic name of the usage within the page.
156Both these functions may return a pointer to static data.
157Before either of these functions can be called the usage table
158must be parsed, this is done by calling
159.Fn hid_init
160with the name of the table.  Passing
161.Fa NULL
162to this function will cause it to use the default table.
163.Ss DATA EXTRACTION FUNCTIONS
164Given the data obtained from a HID device and an item in the
165report descriptor the
166.Fn hid_get_data
167function extracts the value of the item.
168Conversely
169.Fn hid_set_data
170can be used to put data into a report (which must be zeroed first).
171.Sh EXAMPLE
172Not yet.
173.Sh FILES
174.Pa /usr/share/misc/usb_hid_usages
175The default HID usage table.
176.Sh BUGS
177This man page is woefully incomplete.
178.Sh SEE ALSO
179The
180.Tn USB
181specifications can be found at
182.Dv http://www.usb.org/developers/docs.htm .
183.Pp
184.Xr hid 4 ,
185.Xr usb 4 .
186.Sh HISTORY
187The
188.Nm
189library first appeared in
190.Nx 1.5 .
191