diff --git a/doc/usb_adapters/dump.sh b/doc/usb_adapters/dump.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
+
+devs=$(lsusb -d $1:$2 | wc -l)
+case "$devs" in
+	0 )
+		echo "Error: USB device $1:$2 not found" > /dev/stderr
+		exit 1
+		;;
+	1 )
+		echo "Dumping $(lsusb -d $1:$2)" > /dev/stderr
+		;;
+	* )
+		echo "Error: Multiple matches for 'lsusb -d $1:$2'" > /dev/stderr
+		exit 1
+		;;
+esac
+
+# break SPDX tag to hide it to checkpatch
+echo '# SPDX-''License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later OR GFDL-1.2-no-invariants-or-later'
+echo ''
+echo '# Optional comment'
+
+lsusb -v -d $1:$2 | sed 's/ *$//'
diff --git a/doc/usb_adapters/readme.txt b/doc/usb_adapters/readme.txt
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+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later OR GFDL-1.2-no-invariants-or-later
+
+This folder contains a collection of dumps of USB descriptors, obtained through
+Linux lsusb command, of several USB adapters supported by OpenOCD.
+This collection should help maintaining adapter drivers even if the developer
+doesn't have access to all the devices supported by the driver.
+
+To add a new file, run:
+
+	./doc/usb_adapters/dump.sh ${vid} ${pid} \
+		> doc/usb_adapters/${driver}/${vid}_${pid}_${short_description}.txt
+
+eventually edit the file to add some extra comment, then submit the file to
+OpenOCD gerrit, as explained in HACKING.
+
+The dumps are organized in subfolders corresponding to OpenOCD drivers:
+- cmsis_dap;
+- ft232r;
+- ftdi;
+- icdi;
+- jlink;
+- kitprog;
+- nulink;
+- stlink;
+- xds110.
+
+The script above assumes the user has granted access permissions to the USB
+device file in
+	/dev/bus/usb/<n>/<m>
+This is usually the case when the device is listed in
+	contrib/60-openocd.rules
+and this udev rules file is properly installed in the host machine.
+If the user has no proper access permissions, the script has to be run as
+root or through 'sudo'.
+
+Old versions of 'lsusb -v' dump cryptic errors like:
+	can't get device qualifier: Resource temporarily unavailable
+	can't get debug descriptor: Resource temporarily unavailable
+when some optional descriptor is not present.
+This is fixed in usbutils v014.
+If you get such messages simply ignore them. They are printed on stderr, so
+will not be included in the generated file as the redirection '>' does only
+redirects stdout.