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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 only be in.
108To perform input from an interrupt endpoint
109.Xr read 2
110should be used.
111A moderate amount of buffering is done
112by the driver.
113.Pp
114All endpoints handle the following
115.Xr ioctl 2
116calls:
117.Bl -tag -width indent
118.It Dv USB_SET_SHORT_XFER Pq Vt int
119Allow short read transfer.
120Normally a transfer from the device
121which is shorter than the request specified is reported as an
122error.
123.It Dv USB_SET_TIMEOUT Pq Vt int
124Set the timeout on the device operations, the time is specified
125in milliseconds.
126The value 0 is used to indicate that there is
127no timeout.
128.El
129.Pp
130The control endpoint (endpoint 0) handles the following
131.Xr ioctl 2
132calls:
133.Bl -tag -width indent
134.It Dv USB_GET_CONFIG Pq Vt int
135Get the device configuration number.
136.It Dv USB_SET_CONFIG Pq Vt int
137Set the device into the given configuration number.
138.Pp
139This operation can only be performed when the control endpoint
140is the sole open endpoint.
141.It Dv USB_GET_ALTINTERFACE Pq Vt "struct usb_alt_interface"
142Get the alternative setting number for the interface with the given
143index.
144The
145.Va config_index
146is ignored in this call.
147.Bd -literal
148struct usb_alt_interface {
149	int	config_index;
150	int	interface_index;
151	int	alt_no;
152};
153.Ed
154.It Dv USB_SET_ALTINTERFACE Pq Vt "struct usb_alt_interface"
155Set the alternative setting to the given number in the interface with the
156given index.
157The
158.Va config_index
159is ignored in this call.
160.Pp
161This operation can only be performed when no endpoints for the interface
162are open.
163.It Dv USB_GET_NO_ALT Pq Vt "struct usb_alt_interface"
164Return the number of different alternate settings in the
165.Va alt_no
166field.
167.It Dv USB_GET_DEVICE_DESC Pq Vt usb_device_descriptor_t
168Return the device descriptor.
169.It Dv USB_GET_CONFIG_DESC Pq Vt "struct usb_config_desc"
170Return the descriptor for the configuration with the given index.
171For convenience the current configuration can be specified by
172.Dv USB_CURRENT_CONFIG_INDEX .
173.Bd -literal
174struct usb_config_desc {
175	int	config_index;
176	usb_config_descriptor_t desc;
177};
178.Ed
179.It Dv USB_GET_INTERFACE_DESC Pq Vt "struct usb_interface_desc"
180Return the interface descriptor for an interface specified by its
181configuration index, interface index, and alternative index.
182For convenience the current alternative can be specified by
183.Dv USB_CURRENT_ALT_INDEX .
184.Bd -literal
185struct usb_interface_desc {
186	int	config_index;
187	int	interface_index;
188	int	alt_index;
189	usb_interface_descriptor_t desc;
190};
191.Ed
192.It Dv USB_GET_ENDPOINT_DESC Pq Vt "struct usb_endpoint_desc"
193Return the endpoint descriptor for the endpoint specified by its
194configuration index, interface index, alternative index, and
195endpoint index.
196.Bd -literal
197struct usb_endpoint_desc {
198	int	config_index;
199	int	interface_index;
200	int	alt_index;
201	int	endpoint_index;
202	usb_endpoint_descriptor_t desc;
203};
204.Ed
205.It Dv USB_GET_FULL_DESC Pq Vt "struct usb_full_desc"
206Return all the descriptors for the given configuration.
207.Bd -literal
208struct usb_full_desc {
209	int	config_index;
210	u_int	size;
211	u_char	*data;
212};
213.Ed
214The
215.Va data
216field should point to a memory area of the size given in the
217.Va size
218field.
219The proper size can be determined by first issuing a
220.Dv USB_GET_CONFIG_DESC
221and inspecting the
222.Va wTotalLength
223field.
224.It Dv USB_GET_STRING_DESC Pq Vt "struct usb_string_desc"
225Get a string descriptor for the given language ID and
226string index.
227.Bd -literal
228struct usb_string_desc {
229	int	string_index;
230	int	language_id;
231	usb_string_descriptor_t desc;
232};
233.Ed
234.It Dv USB_DO_REQUEST Pq Vt "struct usb_ctl_request"
235Send a USB request to the device on the control endpoint.
236Any data sent to/from the device is located at
237.Va data .
238The size of the transferred data is determined from the
239.Va request .
240The
241.Va addr
242field is ignored in this call.
243The
244.Va flags
245field can be used to flag that the request is allowed to
246be shorter than the requested size, and the
247.Va actlen
248will contain the actual size on completion.
249.Bd -literal
250struct usb_ctl_request {
251	int	addr;
252	usb_device_request_t request;
253	void	*data;
254	int	flags;
255#define USBD_SHORT_XFER_OK	0x04	/* allow short reads */
256	int	actlen;		/* actual length transferred */
257};
258.Ed
259This is a dangerous operation in that it can perform arbitrary operations
260on the device.
261Some of the most dangerous (e.g., changing the device
262address) are not allowed.
263.It Dv USB_GET_DEVICEINFO Pq Vt "struct usb_device_info"
264Get an information summary for the device.
265This call will not
266issue any USB transactions.
267.El
268.Pp
269Note that there are two different ways of addressing configurations, interfaces,
270alternatives, and endpoints: by index or by number.
271The index is the ordinal number (starting from 0) of the descriptor
272as presented by the device.
273The number is the respective number of
274the entity as found in its descriptor.
275Enumeration of descriptors
276use the index, getting and setting typically uses numbers.
277.Pp
278Example:
279all endpoints (except the control endpoint) for the current configuration
280can be found by iterating the
281.Va interface_index
282from 0 to
283.Va config_desc->bNumInterface Ns \-1
284and for each of these iterating the
285.Va endpoint_index
286from 0 to
287.Va interface_desc->bNumEndpoints .
288The
289.Va config_index
290should set to
291.Dv USB_CURRENT_CONFIG_INDEX
292and
293.Va alt_index
294should be set to
295.Dv USB_CURRENT_ALT_INDEX .
296.Sh FILES
297.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /dev/ugen Ns Ar N Ns Pa \&. Ns Ar EE" -compact
298.It Pa /dev/ugen Ns Ar N Ns Pa \&. Ns Ar EE
299Endpoint
300.Ar EE
301of device
302.Ar N .
303.El
304.Sh SEE ALSO
305.Xr usb 4
306.Sh HISTORY
307The
308.Nm
309driver
310appeared in
311.Nx 1.4 .
312.\" .Sh BUGS
313.\" The driver is not yet finished; there is no access to isochronous endpoints.
314