Re: USB Driver programming documentation

From: Pete Zaitcev (OTID1) (ot16a6ca05878e44c0_at_comcast.net)
Date: 11/26/04

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    Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 18:52:20 -0800

    On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 13:13:48 -0800, Sebastien B wrote:

    > Does anyone have a good link for writing USB device drivers with the
    > 2.6 kernel ? All that I can find is related to the 2.4 kernel, and the
    > 2.6 API looks quite different, for example it uses intensively the
    > usb_set_intfdata() for which I didn't find any documentation. []

    usb_set_intfdata is a trivial wrapper.

    Just get a driver which is similar to what you want to do and copy
    from there.

    -- Pete

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