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     USBD(4)                                                   USBD(4)

     NAME
          usbd - Universal Serial Bus daemon

     SYNOPSIS
          usbd [ -Dd ] [ -s srv ] [ -m mnt ] [ hub... ]

     DESCRIPTION
          Usbd complements usb(3) to provide USB I/O for device
          drivers.  It enumerates the bus, polling hub ports to detect
          device attachments and detachments, performs initial config-
          uration of setup endpoints, and writes extra information
          into usb(3) endpoint control files, to ease device location.

          By default, usbd opens all setup endpoints found at #u/usb
          (which correspond to built-in hubs initialized by the kernel
          during boot).  Paths to directories representing setup end-
          points for hubs can be given as arguments to restrict usbd
          operation to such hubs.

          When a device is attached, depending upon a configuration
          file compiled into usbd , the appropriate device driver may
          be started without user intervention.  This mechanism can be
          used to statically link some USB device drivers into usbd
          itself.  Initial configuration for setup endpoints is per-
          formed independently of this configuration.

          Usbd provides a file interface used to change debugging
          flags, and also used by USB device drivers statically linked
          into usbd. By default, the file system is mounted (after) at
          /dev and a 9P connection is posted at /srv/usb.

          Besides files provided by device drivers, the file usbdctl
          is always present in the file interface.  It accepts these
          control requests:

          debug n    Sets the debugging level to n.
          fsdebug n  Sets the file system debugging level to n.
          dump       Prints the list of devices and file systems known
                     by usbd.

          Usbd recognizes the following options:

          -d      Print debugging diagnostics.  Repeating the option
                  increases verbosity.
          -D      Print debugging diagnostics for the file system
                  interface.
          -m mnt  Mount the served file system at mnt.
          -s srv  Post a 9P connection at #s/srv.

        Configuration

     USBD(4)                                                   USBD(4)

          Usbd can be configured to start drivers for devices matching
          one or more CSPs (hex representation of USB class, subclass
          and protocol), class, subclass, protocol, vendor id, or
          device id.  When a new device is attached, usbd scans the
          configuration and, if an entry matches the device descrip-
          tor, starts the driver.  If no driver is configured, the
          setup endpoint for the device is left configured to let the
          user start the driver by hand.

          Configuration is via compilation because one of the options
          is to embed (link) the driver into the usbd binary.  If the
          driver is embedded, usbd creates a process for it and calls
          its main entry point.  Otherwise, usbd tries to locate the
          driver binary in /bin/usb and creates a process to execute
          it.

          The configuration file, usbdb, has two sections: embed and
          auto.  Each section includes lines to configure particular
          drivers.  A driver may have more than one line if necessary.
          Each line includes the name of the driver (the base name of
          the binary) and one or more attributes of the form

               name=value

          The following attributes exist:

          class     Value may be the name of the class or a number
                    identifying the device class (using C syntax).
                    The following class names are known: audio, comms,
                    hid, printer, storage, hub, and data.
          subclass  Value is the number of the device subclass.
          proto     Value is the number of the device protocol.
          csp       Value is the hexadecimal number describing the CSP
                    for the device.
          vid       Value is the vendor id.
          did       Value is the device id.
          args      This must be the last field.  The value is the
                    rest of the line, and is supplied as arguments to
                    the driver process.

          Several environment variables can be used to alter the
          behaviour of usbd, for example, for use in plan9.ini(8).
          usbdebug sets a debug level (zero for no diagnostics and
          positive values for increasing verbosity).  kbargs overrides
          the keyboard arguments as specified by the configuration
          file.  diskargs overrides the disk arguments in the same
          way.

     EXAMPLE
          This configuration file links usb/kb into usbd when it is
          compiled.  It arranges for the driver's entry point, kbmain
          in this case, to be called for any device with CSPs matching

     USBD(4)                                                   USBD(4)

          either 0x010103 or 0x020103.  Option -d will be supplied as
          command line arguments for kbmain.  This configuration also
          arranges for /bin/usb/disk to start (with no arguments)
          whenever a device of class storage is attached.

               embed
                    kb   csp=0x010103 csp=0x020103     args=-d
               auto
                    disk class=storage  args=

     FILES
          /srv/usb  9P connection to the driver file system.
          /dev      mount point for the driver file system.
          /sys/src/cmd/usb/usbd/usbdb
                    Configuration file deciding which devices are
                    included into usbd and which ones are started
                    automatically.

     SOURCE
          /sys/src/cmd/usb/usbd

     SEE ALSO
          usb(2), usb(3), usb(4)

     BUGS
          Usbd is not supposed to be restarted.  This is arguable.

          Not heavily exercised yet.