UGEN(4)

NAME
ugen - USB generic device support

SYNOPSIS
ugen* at uhub?

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 device, 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 device node. The four least significant bits in the minor device number determines which endpoint the device accesses and the rest of the bits determines which USB device.

If an endpoint address is used both for input and output the device can be opened for both read or write, but an open(2) cannot specify O_RDWR mode; the endpoint must be opened once for each direction.

To find out what endpoints that exist there are a series of ioctl(2) operation on the control endpoint that returns the USB descriptors 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 IO on a bulk endpoint read(2) and write(2) should be used. All IO operations on a bulk endpoint are unbuffered.

The interrupt transfer mode can only be in. To perform input from an interrupt endpoint read(2) should be used. A moderate amount of buffering is done by the driver.

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 control 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 config_index is ignored in this call.

        struct usb_alt_interface {
        	int	config_index;
        	int	interface_index;
        	int	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 config_index is ignored in this call.
    This operation can only be performed when no endpoints for the interface are open.
USB_GET_NO_ALT (struct usb_alt_interface)
    Return the number of different alternate settings in the 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	config_index;
        	usb_config_descriptor_t desc;
        };

USB_GET_INTERFACE_DESC (struct usb_interface_desc)
    Return the interface descriptor for an interface specified by its configuration index, interface index, and alternative index. For convenience the current alternative can be specified by USB_CURRENT_ALT_INDEX.

        struct usb_interface_desc {
        	int	config_index;
        	int	interface_index;
        	int	alt_index;
        	usb_interface_descriptor_t 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	config_index;
        	int	interface_index;
        	int	alt_index;
        	int	endpoint_index;
        	usb_endpoint_descriptor_t desc;
        };

USB_GET_FULL_DESC (struct usb_full_desc)
    Return all the descriptors for the given configuration.

        struct usb_full_desc {
        	int	config_index;
        	u_int	size;
        	u_char	*data;
        };

    The data field should point to a memory area of of the size given in the size field. The proper size can be determined by first issuing a USB_GET_CONFIG_DESC and inspecting 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	string_index;
        	int	language_id;
        	usb_string_descriptor_t desc;
        };

USB_DO_REQUEST
    Send a USB request to the device on the control endpoint. Any data sent to/from the device is located at data. The size of the transferred data is determined from the request. The addr field is ignored in this call.

        struct usb_ctl_request {
        	int	addr;
        	usb_device_request_t request;
        	void	*data;
        };

    This is a dangerous operation in that it can perform arbitrary operations on the device. Some of the most dangerous (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 configurations, interfaces, alternatives, and endpoints: by index or by number. The index is the ordinal number (starting from 0) of the descriptor 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.

SEE ALSO
usb(4)

HISTORY
The ugen driver appeared in NetBSD 1.4.

BUGS
The driver is not yet finished; there is no access to isochronous endpoints.