usb: vstusb.c : new driver for spectrometers used by Vernier Software & Technology, Inc.

This patch adds the vstusb driver to the drivers/usb/misc directory.
This driver provides support for Vernier Software & Technology
spectrometers, all made by Ocean Optics. The driver provides both IOCTL
and read()/write() methods for sending raw data to spectrometers across
the bulk channel. Each method allows for a configured timeout.

From: Stephen Ware <stephen.ware@eqware.net>
Signed-off-by: Dennis O'Brien <dennis.obrien@eqware.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

2 files changed, 72 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/usb/Kbuild b/include/linux/usb/Kbuild
index 29fd73b0bffc..54c446309a2a 100644
--- a/include/linux/usb/Kbuild
+++ b/include/linux/usb/Kbuild
@@ -5,3 +5,4 @@ header-y += gadgetfs.h
 header-y += midi.h
 header-y += g_printer.h
 header-y += tmc.h
+header-y += vstusb.h
diff --git a/include/linux/usb/vstusb.h b/include/linux/usb/vstusb.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..1cfac67191ff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/linux/usb/vstusb.h
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+/*****************************************************************************
+ *  File: drivers/usb/misc/vstusb.h
+ *
+ *  Purpose: Support for the bulk USB Vernier Spectrophotometers
+ *
+ *  Author:     EQware Engineering, Inc.
+ *              Oregon City, OR, USA 97045
+ *
+ *  Copyright:  2007, 2008
+ *              Vernier Software & Technology
+ *              Beaverton, OR, USA 97005
+ *
+ *  Web:        www.vernier.com
+ *
+ *  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ *  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
+ *  published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
+ *****************************************************************************/
+/*****************************************************************************
+ *
+ *  The vstusb module is a standard usb 'client' driver running on top of the
+ *  standard usb host controller stack.
+ *
+ *  In general, vstusb supports standard bulk usb pipes.  It supports multiple
+ *  devices and multiple pipes per device.
+ *
+ *  The vstusb driver supports two interfaces:
+ *  1 - ioctl SEND_PIPE/RECV_PIPE - a general bulk write/read msg
+ *      interface to any pipe with timeout support;
+ *  2 - standard read/write with ioctl config - offers standard read/write
+ *      interface with ioctl configured pipes and timeouts.
+ *
+ *  Both interfaces can be signal from other process and will abort its i/o
+ *  operation.
+ *
+ *  A timeout of 0 means NO timeout.  The user can still terminate the read via
+ *  signal.
+ *
+ *  If using multiple threads with this driver, the user should ensure that
+ *  any reads, writes, or ioctls are complete before closing the device.
+ *  Changing read/write timeouts or pipes takes effect on next read/write.
+ *
+ *****************************************************************************/
+
+struct vstusb_args {
+        union {
+                /* this struct is used for IOCTL_VSTUSB_SEND_PIPE,      *
+                 * IOCTL_VSTUSB_RECV_PIPE, and read()/write() fops      */
+                struct {
+                        void __user     *buffer;
+                        size_t          count;
+                        unsigned int    timeout_ms;
+                        int             pipe;
+                };
+
+                /* this one is used for IOCTL_VSTUSB_CONFIG_RW          */
+                struct {
+                        int rd_pipe;
+                        int rd_timeout_ms;
+                        int wr_pipe;
+                        int wr_timeout_ms;
+                };
+        };
+};
+
+#define VST_IOC_MAGIC 'L'
+#define VST_IOC_FIRST 0x20
+#define IOCTL_VSTUSB_SEND_PIPE  _IO(VST_IOC_MAGIC, VST_IOC_FIRST)
+#define IOCTL_VSTUSB_RECV_PIPE  _IO(VST_IOC_MAGIC, VST_IOC_FIRST + 1)
+#define IOCTL_VSTUSB_CONFIG_RW  _IO(VST_IOC_MAGIC, VST_IOC_FIRST + 2)