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39.Dd July 12, 1998
40.Dt UGEN 4
41.Os
42.Sh NAME
43.Nm ugen
44.Nd USB generic device support
45.Sh SYNOPSIS
46.Cd "device ugen"
47.Sh DESCRIPTION
48The
49.Nm
50driver provides support for all USB devices that do not have
51a special driver.
52It supports access to all parts of the device,
53but not in a way that is as convenient as a special purpose driver.
54.Pp
55There can be up to 127 USB devices connected to a USB bus.
56Each USB device can have up to 16 endpoints.
57Each of these endpoints
58will communicate in one of four different modes: control, isochronous,
59bulk, or interrupt.
60Each of the endpoints will have a different
61device node.
62The four least significant bits in the minor device
63number determines which endpoint the device accesses and the rest
64of the bits determines which USB device.
65.Pp
66If an endpoint address is used both for input and output the device
67can be opened for both read or write.
68.Pp
69To find out what endpoints that exist there are a series of
70.Xr ioctl 2
71operation on the control endpoint that returns the USB descriptors
72of the device, configurations, interfaces, and endpoints.
73.Pp
74The control transfer mode can only happen on the control endpoint
75which is always endpoint 0.
76The control endpoint accepts request
77and may respond with an answer to such request.
78Control request
79are issued by
80.Xr ioctl 2
81calls.
82.\" .Pp
83.\" The isochronous transfer mode can be in or out depending on the
84.\" endpoint.
85.\" To perform I/O on an isochronous endpoint
86.\" .Xr read 2
87.\" and
88.\" .Xr write 2
89.\" should be used.
90.\" Before any I/O operations can take place the transfer rate in
91.\" bytes/second has to be set.
92.\" This is done with
93.\" .Xr ioctl 2
94.\" .Dv USB_SET_ISO_RATE .
95.\" Performing this call sets up a buffer corresponding to
96.\" about 1 second of data.
97.Pp
98The bulk transfer mode can be in or out depending on the
99endpoint.
100To perform I/O on a bulk endpoint
101.Xr read 2
102and
103.Xr write 2
104should be used.
105All I/O operations on a bulk endpoint are unbuffered.
106.Pp
107The interrupt transfer mode can be in or out depending on the
108endpoint.
109To perform I/O on an interrupt endpoint
110.Xr read 2
111and
112.Xr write 2
113should be used.
114A moderate amount of buffering is done
115by the driver.
116.Pp
117All endpoints handle the following
118.Xr ioctl 2
119calls:
120.Bl -tag -width indent
121.It Dv USB_SET_SHORT_XFER Pq Vt int
122Allow short read transfer.
123Normally a transfer from the device
124which is shorter than the request specified is reported as an
125error.
126.It Dv USB_SET_TIMEOUT Pq Vt int
127Set the timeout on the device operations, the time is specified
128in milliseconds.
129The value 0 is used to indicate that there is
130no timeout.
131.El
132.Pp
133The control endpoint (endpoint 0) handles the following
134.Xr ioctl 2
135calls:
136.Bl -tag -width indent
137.It Dv USB_GET_CONFIG Pq Vt int
138Get the device configuration number.
139.It Dv USB_SET_CONFIG Pq Vt int
140Set the device into the given configuration number.
141.Pp
142This operation can only be performed when the control endpoint
143is the sole open endpoint.
144.It Dv USB_GET_ALTINTERFACE Pq Vt "struct usb_alt_interface"
145Get the alternative setting number for the interface with the given
146index.
147The
148.Va config_index
149is ignored in this call.
150.Bd -literal
151struct usb_alt_interface {
152	int	config_index;
153	int	interface_index;
154	int	alt_no;
155};
156.Ed
157.It Dv USB_SET_ALTINTERFACE Pq Vt "struct usb_alt_interface"
158Set the alternative setting to the given number in the interface with the
159given index.
160The
161.Va config_index
162is ignored in this call.
163.Pp
164This operation can only be performed when no endpoints for the interface
165are open.
166.It Dv USB_GET_NO_ALT Pq Vt "struct usb_alt_interface"
167Return the number of different alternate settings in the
168.Va alt_no
169field.
170.It Dv USB_GET_DEVICE_DESC Pq Vt usb_device_descriptor_t
171Return the device descriptor.
172.It Dv USB_GET_CONFIG_DESC Pq Vt "struct usb_config_desc"
173Return the descriptor for the configuration with the given index.
174For convenience the current configuration can be specified by
175.Dv USB_CURRENT_CONFIG_INDEX .
176.Bd -literal
177struct usb_config_desc {
178	int	config_index;
179	usb_config_descriptor_t desc;
180};
181.Ed
182.It Dv USB_GET_INTERFACE_DESC Pq Vt "struct usb_interface_desc"
183Return the interface descriptor for an interface specified by its
184configuration index, interface index, and alternative index.
185For convenience the current alternative can be specified by
186.Dv USB_CURRENT_ALT_INDEX .
187.Bd -literal
188struct usb_interface_desc {
189	int	config_index;
190	int	interface_index;
191	int	alt_index;
192	usb_interface_descriptor_t desc;
193};
194.Ed
195.It Dv USB_GET_ENDPOINT_DESC Pq Vt "struct usb_endpoint_desc"
196Return the endpoint descriptor for the endpoint specified by its
197configuration index, interface index, alternative index, and
198endpoint index.
199.Bd -literal
200struct usb_endpoint_desc {
201	int	config_index;
202	int	interface_index;
203	int	alt_index;
204	int	endpoint_index;
205	usb_endpoint_descriptor_t desc;
206};
207.Ed
208.It Dv USB_GET_FULL_DESC Pq Vt "struct usb_full_desc"
209Return all the descriptors for the given configuration.
210.Bd -literal
211struct usb_full_desc {
212	int	config_index;
213	u_int	size;
214	u_char	*data;
215};
216.Ed
217The
218.Va data
219field should point to a memory area of the size given in the
220.Va size
221field.
222The proper size can be determined by first issuing a
223.Dv USB_GET_CONFIG_DESC
224and inspecting the
225.Va wTotalLength
226field.
227.It Dv USB_GET_STRING_DESC Pq Vt "struct usb_string_desc"
228Get a string descriptor for the given language ID and
229string index.
230.Bd -literal
231struct usb_string_desc {
232	int	string_index;
233	int	language_id;
234	usb_string_descriptor_t desc;
235};
236.Ed
237.It Dv USB_DO_REQUEST Pq Vt "struct usb_ctl_request"
238Send a USB request to the device on the control endpoint.
239Any data sent to/from the device is located at
240.Va data .
241The size of the transferred data is determined from the
242.Va request .
243The
244.Va addr
245field is ignored in this call.
246The
247.Va flags
248field can be used to flag that the request is allowed to
249be shorter than the requested size, and the
250.Va actlen
251will contain the actual size on completion.
252.Bd -literal
253struct usb_ctl_request {
254	int	addr;
255	usb_device_request_t request;
256	void	*data;
257	int	flags;
258#define USBD_SHORT_XFER_OK	0x04	/* allow short reads */
259	int	actlen;		/* actual length transferred */
260};
261.Ed
262This is a dangerous operation in that it can perform arbitrary operations
263on the device.
264Some of the most dangerous (e.g., changing the device
265address) are not allowed.
266.It Dv USB_GET_DEVICEINFO Pq Vt "struct usb_device_info"
267Get an information summary for the device.
268This call will not
269issue any USB transactions.
270.El
271.Pp
272Note that there are two different ways of addressing configurations, interfaces,
273alternatives, and endpoints: by index or by number.
274The index is the ordinal number (starting from 0) of the descriptor
275as presented by the device.
276The number is the respective number of
277the entity as found in its descriptor.
278Enumeration of descriptors
279use the index, getting and setting typically uses numbers.
280.Pp
281Example:
282all endpoints (except the control endpoint) for the current configuration
283can be found by iterating the
284.Va interface_index
285from 0 to
286.Va config_desc->bNumInterface Ns \-1
287and for each of these iterating the
288.Va endpoint_index
289from 0 to
290.Va interface_desc->bNumEndpoints .
291The
292.Va config_index
293should set to
294.Dv USB_CURRENT_CONFIG_INDEX
295and
296.Va alt_index
297should be set to
298.Dv USB_CURRENT_ALT_INDEX .
299.Sh FILES
300.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /dev/ugen Ns Ar N Ns Pa \&. Ns Ar EE" -compact
301.It Pa /dev/ugen Ns Ar N Ns Pa \&. Ns Ar EE
302Endpoint
303.Ar EE
304of device
305.Ar N .
306.El
307.Sh SEE ALSO
308.Xr usb 4
309.Sh HISTORY
310The
311.Nm
312driver
313appeared in
314.Nx 1.4 .
315.\" .Sh BUGS
316.\" The driver is not yet finished; there is no access to isochronous endpoints.
317