NAME
uhid
—
USB generic HID support
SYNOPSIS
uhid* at uhidev? reportid ? flags N
DESCRIPTION
Theuhid
driver provides support for all HID (Human
Interface Device) interfaces in USB devices that do not have a special driver.
Normally the uhid
driver is used when no
other HID driver attaches to a device. If “flags 1” is
specified, the uhid
driver will instead attach with
a very high priority and always be used. Together with the
vendor
and product
locators
on the uhidev(4) driver this can be used to force the
uhid
driver to be used for a certain device.
The device handles the following ioctl(2) calls:
USB_GET_REPORT_ID (int)
- Get the report identifier used by this HID report.
USB_GET_REPORT_DESC (struct usb_ctl_report_desc)
- Get the HID report descriptor. Using this descriptor the exact layout and
meaning of data to/from the device can be found. The report descriptor is
delivered without any processing.
struct usb_ctl_report_desc { int ucrd_size; u_char ucrd_data[1024]; /* filled data size will vary */ };
USB_SET_IMMED (int)
- Sets the device in a mode where each read(2) will return the current value of the input report. Normally a read(2) will only return the data that the device reports on its interrupt pipe. This call may fail if the device does not support this feature.
USB_GET_REPORT (struct usb_ctl_report)
- Get a report from the device without waiting for data on the interrupt
pipe. The
report
field indicates which report is requested. It should beUHID_INPUT_REPORT
,UHID_OUTPUT_REPORT
, orUHID_FEATURE_REPORT
. This call may fail if the device does not support this feature.struct usb_ctl_report { int ucr_report; u_char ucr_data[1024]; /* used data size will vary */ };
USB_SET_REPORT (struct usb_ctl_report)
- Set a report in the device. The
report
field indicates which report is to be set. It should beUHID_INPUT_REPORT
,UHID_OUTPUT_REPORT
, orUHID_FEATURE_REPORT
. This call may fail if the device does not support this feature. USB_GET_DEVICE_DESC (usb_device_descriptor_t)
- Return the device descriptor.
USB_GET_DEVICEINFO (struct usb_device_info)
- Get an information summary for the device. This call will not issue any USB transactions.
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 usd_string_index; int usd_language_id; usb_string_descriptor_t usd_desc; };
Use read(2) to get data from the device. Data should be read in chunks of the size prescribed by the report descriptor.
Use write(2) send data to the device. Data should be written in chunks of the size prescribed by the report descriptor.
FILES
- /dev/uhid?
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
The uhid
driver appeared in
NetBSD 1.4. Support for the
USB_GET_DEVICEINFO
and
USB_GET_STRING_DESC
ioctls appeared in
NetBSD 2.0.