On 1/18/06, mayank rana <mayank_rana_it@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Thanks for ur reply. > Actually I studied the USB stack and architecture. I am also referring > usbmouse.c. but I want to write USB mouse driver for one particular company > product. Yaa You are right , usb mouse driver is already there in linux > source code, But I want to learn the art of writing device driver and so I > started this project as my academic project. > > Sanjay kumar....You are wrong. Actually the driver which is part of device > is called "usb gadget driver", I am writing drive for host point of view. I > don't know try to search on Google. Ok thanks a lot. Actually I am also trying to learn things only. I had just started going through USB, and thought about clarifying my understanding here. In the device driver book, there were reference to two kinds of drivers and i got a bit confused from that :) Sanjay > > regards, > _-_Mayank Rana_-_ > "Imagination is more important than Knowledge." > sanjay kumar <xs2sanjay@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 1/17/06, Greg KH wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 08:39:06AM -0800, mayank rana wrote: > > > hi to all > > > > > > I am working on writing device driver for USB mouse. Now I studied > > > the architecture of USB mouse , i.e > Configuration,Interface,Endpoint. > > > I am also able to detect USB mouse using my code. I am not getting > > > how to write probe function which is basically used for initializing > > > above parameters. If somebody is able to tell me flow of probe > > > funcation, I am very grateful to him. > > > > Have you read the USB documentation that is included in the kernel > > source tree? Look in Documentation/DocBook/usb and writing_usb_driver > > (but the writing file is a bit out of date.) > > > > Also, the third edition of Linux Device Drivers (free online) has a > > whole chapter all about USB that you should look at. > > The usb device driver for a mouse will be a "usb gadget driver". Am i > correct in my understanding. > The device driver book says, that it does not cover "usb gadget > drivers", so where to look for pointers for writing "usb gadget > driver" apart from the kernel source. > > -- > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ > > > > > ________________________________ > Yahoo! Photos > Got holiday prints? See all the ways to get quality prints in your hands > ASAP. > > -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
