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authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>2019-06-18 23:05:38 +0200
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docs: usb: rename files to .rst and add them to drivers-api
While there are a mix of things here, most of the stuff were written from Kernel developer's PoV. So, add them to the driver-api book. A follow up for this patch would be to move documents from there that are specific to sysadmins, adding them to the admin-guide. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Acked-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> Acked-by: Felipe Balbi <felipe.balbi@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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-============================================
-Linux USB gadget configured through configfs
-============================================
-
-
-25th April 2013
-
-
-
-
-Overview
-========
-
-A USB Linux Gadget is a device which has a UDC (USB Device Controller) and can
-be connected to a USB Host to extend it with additional functions like a serial
-port or a mass storage capability.
-
-A gadget is seen by its host as a set of configurations, each of which contains
-a number of interfaces which, from the gadget's perspective, are known as
-functions, each function representing e.g. a serial connection or a SCSI disk.
-
-Linux provides a number of functions for gadgets to use.
-
-Creating a gadget means deciding what configurations there will be
-and which functions each configuration will provide.
-
-Configfs (please see `Documentation/filesystems/configfs/*`) lends itself nicely
-for the purpose of telling the kernel about the above mentioned decision.
-This document is about how to do it.
-
-It also describes how configfs integration into gadget is designed.
-
-
-
-
-Requirements
-============
-
-In order for this to work configfs must be available, so CONFIGFS_FS must be
-'y' or 'm' in .config. As of this writing USB_LIBCOMPOSITE selects CONFIGFS_FS.
-
-
-
-
-Usage
-=====
-
-(The original post describing the first function
-made available through configfs can be seen here:
-http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-usb/msg76388.html)
-
-::
-
- $ modprobe libcomposite
- $ mount none $CONFIGFS_HOME -t configfs
-
-where CONFIGFS_HOME is the mount point for configfs
-
-1. Creating the gadgets
------------------------
-
-For each gadget to be created its corresponding directory must be created::
-
- $ mkdir $CONFIGFS_HOME/usb_gadget/<gadget name>
-
-e.g.::
-
- $ mkdir $CONFIGFS_HOME/usb_gadget/g1
-
- ...
- ...
- ...
-
- $ cd $CONFIGFS_HOME/usb_gadget/g1
-
-Each gadget needs to have its vendor id <VID> and product id <PID> specified::
-
- $ echo <VID> > idVendor
- $ echo <PID> > idProduct
-
-A gadget also needs its serial number, manufacturer and product strings.
-In order to have a place to store them, a strings subdirectory must be created
-for each language, e.g.::
-
- $ mkdir strings/0x409
-
-Then the strings can be specified::
-
- $ echo <serial number> > strings/0x409/serialnumber
- $ echo <manufacturer> > strings/0x409/manufacturer
- $ echo <product> > strings/0x409/product
-
-2. Creating the configurations
-------------------------------
-
-Each gadget will consist of a number of configurations, their corresponding
-directories must be created:
-
-$ mkdir configs/<name>.<number>
-
-where <name> can be any string which is legal in a filesystem and the
-<number> is the configuration's number, e.g.::
-
- $ mkdir configs/c.1
-
- ...
- ...
- ...
-
-Each configuration also needs its strings, so a subdirectory must be created
-for each language, e.g.::
-
- $ mkdir configs/c.1/strings/0x409
-
-Then the configuration string can be specified::
-
- $ echo <configuration> > configs/c.1/strings/0x409/configuration
-
-Some attributes can also be set for a configuration, e.g.::
-
- $ echo 120 > configs/c.1/MaxPower
-
-3. Creating the functions
--------------------------
-
-The gadget will provide some functions, for each function its corresponding
-directory must be created::
-
- $ mkdir functions/<name>.<instance name>
-
-where <name> corresponds to one of allowed function names and instance name
-is an arbitrary string allowed in a filesystem, e.g.::
-
- $ mkdir functions/ncm.usb0 # usb_f_ncm.ko gets loaded with request_module()
-
- ...
- ...
- ...
-
-Each function provides its specific set of attributes, with either read-only
-or read-write access. Where applicable they need to be written to as
-appropriate.
-Please refer to Documentation/ABI/*/configfs-usb-gadget* for more information.
-
-4. Associating the functions with their configurations
-------------------------------------------------------
-
-At this moment a number of gadgets is created, each of which has a number of
-configurations specified and a number of functions available. What remains
-is specifying which function is available in which configuration (the same
-function can be used in multiple configurations). This is achieved with
-creating symbolic links::
-
- $ ln -s functions/<name>.<instance name> configs/<name>.<number>
-
-e.g.::
-
- $ ln -s functions/ncm.usb0 configs/c.1
-
- ...
- ...
- ...
-
-5. Enabling the gadget
-----------------------
-
-All the above steps serve the purpose of composing the gadget of
-configurations and functions.
-
-An example directory structure might look like this::
-
- .
- ./strings
- ./strings/0x409
- ./strings/0x409/serialnumber
- ./strings/0x409/product
- ./strings/0x409/manufacturer
- ./configs
- ./configs/c.1
- ./configs/c.1/ncm.usb0 -> ../../../../usb_gadget/g1/functions/ncm.usb0
- ./configs/c.1/strings
- ./configs/c.1/strings/0x409
- ./configs/c.1/strings/0x409/configuration
- ./configs/c.1/bmAttributes
- ./configs/c.1/MaxPower
- ./functions
- ./functions/ncm.usb0
- ./functions/ncm.usb0/ifname
- ./functions/ncm.usb0/qmult
- ./functions/ncm.usb0/host_addr
- ./functions/ncm.usb0/dev_addr
- ./UDC
- ./bcdUSB
- ./bcdDevice
- ./idProduct
- ./idVendor
- ./bMaxPacketSize0
- ./bDeviceProtocol
- ./bDeviceSubClass
- ./bDeviceClass
-
-
-Such a gadget must be finally enabled so that the USB host can enumerate it.
-
-In order to enable the gadget it must be bound to a UDC (USB Device
-Controller)::
-
- $ echo <udc name> > UDC
-
-where <udc name> is one of those found in /sys/class/udc/*
-e.g.::
-
- $ echo s3c-hsotg > UDC
-
-
-6. Disabling the gadget
------------------------
-
-::
-
- $ echo "" > UDC
-
-7. Cleaning up
---------------
-
-Remove functions from configurations::
-
- $ rm configs/<config name>.<number>/<function>
-
-where <config name>.<number> specify the configuration and <function> is
-a symlink to a function being removed from the configuration, e.g.::
-
- $ rm configs/c.1/ncm.usb0
-
- ...
- ...
- ...
-
-Remove strings directories in configurations:
-
- $ rmdir configs/<config name>.<number>/strings/<lang>
-
-e.g.::
-
- $ rmdir configs/c.1/strings/0x409
-
- ...
- ...
- ...
-
-and remove the configurations::
-
- $ rmdir configs/<config name>.<number>
-
-e.g.::
-
- rmdir configs/c.1
-
- ...
- ...
- ...
-
-Remove functions (function modules are not unloaded, though):
-
- $ rmdir functions/<name>.<instance name>
-
-e.g.::
-
- $ rmdir functions/ncm.usb0
-
- ...
- ...
- ...
-
-Remove strings directories in the gadget::
-
- $ rmdir strings/<lang>
-
-e.g.::
-
- $ rmdir strings/0x409
-
-and finally remove the gadget::
-
- $ cd ..
- $ rmdir <gadget name>
-
-e.g.::
-
- $ rmdir g1
-
-
-
-
-Implementation design
-=====================
-
-Below the idea of how configfs works is presented.
-In configfs there are items and groups, both represented as directories.
-The difference between an item and a group is that a group can contain
-other groups. In the picture below only an item is shown.
-Both items and groups can have attributes, which are represented as files.
-The user can create and remove directories, but cannot remove files,
-which can be read-only or read-write, depending on what they represent.
-
-The filesystem part of configfs operates on config_items/groups and
-configfs_attributes which are generic and of the same type for all
-configured elements. However, they are embedded in usage-specific
-larger structures. In the picture below there is a "cs" which contains
-a config_item and an "sa" which contains a configfs_attribute.
-
-The filesystem view would be like this::
-
- ./
- ./cs (directory)
- |
- +--sa (file)
- |
- .
- .
- .
-
-Whenever a user reads/writes the "sa" file, a function is called
-which accepts a struct config_item and a struct configfs_attribute.
-In the said function the "cs" and "sa" are retrieved using the well
-known container_of technique and an appropriate sa's function (show or
-store) is called and passed the "cs" and a character buffer. The "show"
-is for displaying the file's contents (copy data from the cs to the
-buffer), while the "store" is for modifying the file's contents (copy data
-from the buffer to the cs), but it is up to the implementer of the
-two functions to decide what they actually do.
-
-::
-
- typedef struct configured_structure cs;
- typedef struct specific_attribute sa;
-
- sa
- +----------------------------------+
- cs | (*show)(cs *, buffer); |
- +-----------------+ | (*store)(cs *, buffer, length); |
- | | | |
- | +-------------+ | | +------------------+ |
- | | struct |-|----|------>|struct | |
- | | config_item | | | |configfs_attribute| |
- | +-------------+ | | +------------------+ |
- | | +----------------------------------+
- | data to be set | .
- | | .
- +-----------------+ .
-
-The file names are decided by the config item/group designer, while
-the directories in general can be named at will. A group can have
-a number of its default sub-groups created automatically.
-
-For more information on configfs please see
-`Documentation/filesystems/configfs/*`.
-
-The concepts described above translate to USB gadgets like this:
-
-1. A gadget has its config group, which has some attributes (idVendor,
-idProduct etc) and default sub-groups (configs, functions, strings).
-Writing to the attributes causes the information to be stored in
-appropriate locations. In the configs, functions and strings sub-groups
-a user can create their sub-groups to represent configurations, functions,
-and groups of strings in a given language.
-
-2. The user creates configurations and functions, in the configurations
-creates symbolic links to functions. This information is used when the
-gadget's UDC attribute is written to, which means binding the gadget
-to the UDC. The code in drivers/usb/gadget/configfs.c iterates over
-all configurations, and in each configuration it iterates over all
-functions and binds them. This way the whole gadget is bound.
-
-3. The file drivers/usb/gadget/configfs.c contains code for
-
- - gadget's config_group
- - gadget's default groups (configs, functions, strings)
- - associating functions with configurations (symlinks)
-
-4. Each USB function naturally has its own view of what it wants
-configured, so config_groups for particular functions are defined
-in the functions implementation files drivers/usb/gadget/f_*.c.
-
-5. Function's code is written in such a way that it uses
-
-usb_get_function_instance(), which, in turn, calls request_module.
-So, provided that modprobe works, modules for particular functions
-are loaded automatically. Please note that the converse is not true:
-after a gadget is disabled and torn down, the modules remain loaded.