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Update README file:
- remove outdated parts
- clarify terminology and general structure
- add some description of vUDC

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Opasiak <k.opasiak@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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# Copyright (C) 2011 matt mooney <mfm@muteddisk.com>
# 2005-2008 Takahiro Hirofuchi

[Overview]
USB/IP protocol allows to pass USB device from server to client over the
network. Server is a machine which provides (shares) a USB device. Client is
a machine which uses USB device provided by server over the network.
The USB device may be either physical device connected to a server or
software entity created on a server using USB gadget subsystem.
Whole project consists of four parts:

- usbip-vhci
A client side kernel module which provides a virtual USB Host Controller
and allows to import a USB device from a remote machine.

- usbip-host (stub driver)
A server side module which provides a USB device driver which can be
bound to a physical USB device to make it exportable.

- usbip-vudc
A server side module which provides a virtual USB Device Controller and allows
to export a USB device created using USB Gadget Subsystem.

- usbip-utils
A set of userspace tools used to handle connection and management.
Used on both sides.

[Requirements]
- USB/IP device drivers
Found in the staging directory of the Linux kernel.
Found in the drivers/usb/usbip/ directory of the Linux kernel tree.

- libudev >= 2.0
libudev library
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[Usage]
On a server side there are two entities which can be shared.
First of them is physical usb device connected to the machine.
To make it available below steps should be executed:

server:# (Physically attach your USB device.)

server:# insmod usbip-core.ko
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- The USB device 1-2 is now exportable to other hosts!
- Use `usbip unbind --busid 1-2' to stop exporting the device.

Second of shareable entities is USB Gadget created using USB Gadget Subsystem
on a server machine. To make it available below steps should be executed:

server:# (Create your USB gadget)
- Currently the most preferable way of creating a new USB gadget
is ConfigFS Composite Gadget. Please refer to its documentation
for details.
- See vudc_server_example.sh for a short example of USB gadget creation

server:# insmod usbip-core.ko
server:# insmod usbip-vudc.ko
- To create more than one instance of vudc use num module param

server:# (Bind gadget to one of available vudc)
- Assign your new gadget to USB/IP UDC
- Using ConfigFS interface you may do this simply by:
server:# cd /sys/kernel/config/usb_gadget/<gadget_name>
server:# echo "usbip-vudc.0" > UDC

server:# usbipd -D --device
- Start usbip daemon.

To attach new device to client machine below commands should be used:

client:# insmod usbip-core.ko
client:# insmod vhci-hcd.ko

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client:# usbip attach --remote <host> --busid 1-2
- Connect the remote USB device.
- When using vudc on a server side busid is really vudc instance name.
For example: usbip-vudc.0

client:# usbip port
- Show virtual port status.
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- http://usbip.wiki.sourceforge.net/how-to-debug-usbip
- usbip-host.ko must be bound to the target device.
- See /proc/bus/usb/devices and find "Driver=..." lines of the device.
- Target USB gadget must be bound to vudc
(using USB gadget susbsys, not usbip bind command)
- Shutdown firewall.
- usbip now uses TCP port 3240.
- Disable SELinux.
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