【转】 Linux那些事儿之我是U盘(12)从协议中来,到协议中去(中)

星爷说,人有人他妈,妖有妖他妈.说的就是任何事物都有其要遵守的规矩.usb设备要遵循的就是usb协议. 不管是软件还是硬件,在设计的伊始,总是要参考usb协议.怎么设计硬件,如何编写软件,不看usb协议,谁也不可能凭空想象出来.毕竟不是写小说,有几人能像海岩那样,光凭想象就能写出便衣警察,永不瞑目,玉观音这些经典的爱情加案情的作品来呢.

usb协议规定了,每个usb设备都得有些基本的元素,称为描述符,有四类描述符是任何一种usb设备都得有的.他们是,device descriptor,configuration descriptor,interface descriptor,endpoint descriptor.描述符里的冬冬是一个设备出厂的时候就被厂家给固化在设备里了.这种东西不管怎样也改变不了,比如我有个Intel的U盘,那里边的固有的信息肯定是在Intel出厂的时候就被烙在里边了,厂家早已把它的一切,烙上Intel印.所以当我插入U盘,用cat /proc/scsi/scsi命令看一下的话,"Vendor"那一项显示的肯定是Intel. 关于这几种描述符,usb core在总线扫描那会就会去读取,会去获得里边的信息,其中,device描述符描述的是整个device,注意了,这个device和咱们一直讲的device和driver那里的device是不一样的.因为一个usb device实际上指的是一种宏观上的概念,它可以是一种多功能的设备,改革开放之后,多功能的东西越来越多了,比如外企常见的多功能一体机,就是集打印机,复印机,扫描仪,传真机于一体的设备, 当然,这不属于usb设备,但是usb设备当然也有这种情况,比如电台DJ可能会用到的,一个键盘,上边带一个扬声器,它们用两个usb接口接到usb hub上去,而device描述符描述的就是这整个设备的特点.那么configuration描述符呢,老实说,对我们了解U盘驱动真是没有什么意义,但是作为一个有责任心的男人,此刻,我必须为它多说几句,虽然只是很简单的说几句.一个设备可以有一种或者几种配置,这能理解吧?没见过具体的usb设备?那么好,手机见过吧,每个手机都会有多种配置,或者说"设定",比如,我的这款,Nokia6300,手机语言,可以设定为English,繁体中文,简体中文,一旦选择了其中一种,那么手机里边所显示的所有的信息都是该种语言/字体.还有最简单的例子,操作模式也有好几种,标准,无声,会议,etc.基本上如果我设为"会议",那么就是只振动不发声,要是设为无声,那么就啥动静也不会有,只能凭感觉了,以前去公司面试的话通常就是设为无声,因为觉得振动也不好,让人家面试官听到了还是不合适.那么usb设备的配置也是如此,不同的usb设备当然有不同的配置了,或者说需要配置哪些东西也会不一样.好了,关于配置,就说这么多,更多的我们暂时也不需要了解了.

对于usb设备驱动程序编写者来说,更为关键的是下面两个,interface和endpoint.先说,interface.第一句,一个interface对应一个usb设备驱动程序.没错,还说前边那个例子,一个usb设备,两种功能,一个键盘,上面带一个扬声器,两个接口,那这样肯定得要两个驱动程序,一个是键盘驱动程序,一个是音频流驱动程序.道上的兄弟喜欢把这样两个整合在一起的东西叫做一个设备,那好,让他们去叫吧,我门用interface来区分这两者行了吧.于是有了我们前面提到的那个数据结构,struct usb_interface.它定义于include/linux/usb.h:

71 /**
72 * struct usb_interface - what usb device drivers talk to
73 * @altsetting: array of interface structures, one for each alternate
74 * setting that may be selected. Each one includes a set of
75 * endpoint configurations. They will be in no particular order.
76 * @num_altsetting: number of altsettings defined.
77 * @cur_altsetting: the current altsetting.
78 * @driver: the USB driver that is bound to this interface.
79 * @minor: the minor number assigned to this interface, if this
80 * interface is bound to a driver that uses the USB major number.
81 * If this interface does not use the USB major, this field should
82 * be unused. The driver should set this value in the probe()
83 * function of the driver, after it has been assigned a minor
84 * number from the USB core by calling usb_register_dev().
85 * @condition: binding state of the interface: not bound, binding
86 * (in probe()), bound to a driver, or unbinding (in disconnect())
87 * @dev: driver model's view of this device
88 * @class_dev: driver model's class view of this device.
89 *
90 * USB device drivers attach to interfaces on a physical device. Each
91 * interface encapsulates a single high level function, such as feeding
92 * an audio stream to a speaker or reporting a change in a volume control.
93 * Many USB devices only have one interface. The protocol used to talk to
94 * an interface's endpoints can be defined in a usb "class" specification,
95 * or by a product's vendor. The (default) control endpoint is part of
96 * every interface, but is never listed among the interface's descriptors.
97 *
98 * The driver that is bound to the interface can use standard driver model
99 * calls such as dev_get_drvdata() on the dev member of this structure.
100 *
101 * Each interface may have alternate settings. The initial configuration
102 * of a device sets altsetting 0, but the device driver can change
103 * that setting using usb_set_interface(). Alternate settings are often
104 * used to control the the use of periodic endpoints, such as by having
105 * different endpoints use different amounts of reserved USB bandwidth.
106 * All standards-conformant USB devices that use isochronous endpoints
107 * will use them in non-default settings.
108 *
109 * The USB specification says that alternate setting numbers must run from
110 * 0 to one less than the total number of alternate settings. But some
111 * devices manage to mess this up, and the structures aren't necessarily
112 * stored in numerical order anyhow. Use usb_altnum_to_altsetting() to
113 * look up an alternate setting in the altsetting array based on its number.
114 */
115 struct usb_interface {
116 /* array of alternate settings for this interface,
117 * stored in no particular order */
118 struct usb_host_interface *altsetting;
119
120 struct usb_host_interface *cur_altsetting; /* the currently
121 * active alternate setting */
122 unsigned num_altsetting; /* number of alternate settings */
123
124 int minor; /* minor number this interface is bound to */
125 enum usb_interface_condition condition; /* state of binding */
126 struct device dev; /* interface specific device info */
127 struct class_device *class_dev;
128 };
129 #define to_usb_interface(d) container_of(d, struct usb_interface, dev)
130 #define interface_to_usbdev(intf) /
131 container_of(intf->dev.parent, struct usb_device, dev)
嗬,贴这么长一段,怎么又是注释为主啊?知足吧,Linux代码中注释实在是太少了,等你真的需要认真看某一个模块的时候你就会嫌注释少了.这个结构体是一个贯穿整个U盘驱动程序的,所以虽然我们不用去深入了解,但是需要记住,整个U盘驱动程序在后面任何一处提到的struct usb_interface都是同一个变量,这个变量是在usb core总线扫描的时候就申请好了的.我们只需贯彻鲁迅先生的拿来主义即可,直接用就是了.比如前面说过的storage_probe(struct usb_interface *intf,const struct usb_device_id *id),storage_disconnect(struct usb_interface *intf)这两个函数中的那个参数intf.

而这里130行这个宏-interface_to_usbdev,也会用得着的,顾名思义,就是从一个struct usb_interface转换成一个struct usb_device,我们说过了,有些函数需要的参数就是struct usb_device,而不是usb_interface,所以这种转换是经常会用到的,而这个宏,usb core的设计者们也为我们准备好了,除了感激,我们还能说什么呢?