Re: usb drivers in userspace

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On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 1:35 PM, Felipe Balbi
<felipe.balbi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Ran Shalit <ranshalit@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Is it possible to write a usb driver in userspace ?
>> I see that for peripheral/gadget, there is gadgetfs which can be used for that.
>>
>> What about host drivers ?
>> Can we use for example vfio (seems to be used with pci so I'm not
>> sure) ? Or is there another way ?
>
> Have a look at libusb (libusb.info, IIRC). It's probably what you're
> looking for.
>
Right!
I see now that there are 2 main solution nowadays for userspace usb drivers:
1. libusb - for host driver
2. libusb-gadget ( or gadgetfs) - for gadget drivers

> good luck
Thanks !
>
> --
> balbi
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