Linux Journal

The USB Serial Driver Layer, Part II

In Part I of this article, I briefly mentioned the generic USB driver in the context of getting a USB device to communicate through it easily, with no custom kernel programming. Unfortunately, I ...
EDN

Generic Client Driver for a USB Embedded Host

With the introduction of Microchip’s microcontrollers with the USB OTG peripheral, microcontroller applications can easily support USB embedded host functionality. Many devices fall under one of the ...
Ars Technica

Actually getting USB devices to work in Win95 OSR2?

I have an old Toshiba laptop with a USB slot and Windows95 OSR2 (or it may be Win95B, I'm not certain) installed. I downloaded and installed the USB drivers for it, it detects the slot. However, when ...
Design-Reuse

Generic Driver Model using hardware abstraction and standard APIs

In most cases, device drivers are written with both higher level logic and hardware specific code within the same functions. This means that each time a given physical device is used on multiple ...
EDN

Using the HID class eases the job of writing USB device drivers

The difficulty of writing device drivers is one of the major barriers to the adoption of the USB. A typical embedded-device engineer who can comfortably design embedded systems all day long can get ...
Linux Journal

The USB Serial Driver Layer

In my last column [see LJ December 2002], we covered the serial layer in the 2.5 (hopefully soon to be 2.6) kernel tree. We mentioned in passing that a USB-to-serial driver layer in the kernel helps ...