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DOC: A couple corrections and clarifications in USB doc.
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A couple of corrections and clarifications in USB
documentation.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
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Robert P. J. Day authored and Jesper Juhl committed Apr 21, 2008
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useful documents, at the USB home page (see Resources). An excellent
introduction to the Linux USB subsystem can be found at the USB Working
Devices List (see Resources). It explains how the Linux USB subsystem is
structured and introduces the reader to the concept of USB urbs, which
are essential to USB drivers.
structured and introduces the reader to the concept of USB urbs
(USB Request Blocks), which are essential to USB drivers.
</para>
<para>
The first thing a Linux USB driver needs to do is register itself with
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module_init(usb_skel_init);
</programlisting>
<para>
When the driver is unloaded from the system, it needs to unregister
itself with the USB subsystem. This is done with the usb_unregister
When the driver is unloaded from the system, it needs to deregister
itself with the USB subsystem. This is done with the usb_deregister
function:
</para>
<programlisting>
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were passed to the USB subsystem will be called from a user program trying
to talk to the device. The first function called will be open, as the
program tries to open the device for I/O. We increment our private usage
count and save off a pointer to our internal structure in the file
count and save a pointer to our internal structure in the file
structure. This is done so that future calls to file operations will
enable the driver to determine which device the user is addressing. All
of this is done with the following code:
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send to the device based on the size of the write urb it has created (this
size depends on the size of the bulk out end point that the device has).
Then it copies the data from user space to kernel space, points the urb to
the data and submits the urb to the USB subsystem. This can be shown in
he following code:
the data and submits the urb to the USB subsystem. This can be seen in
the following code:
</para>
<programlisting>
/* we can only write as much as 1 urb will hold */
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