riscv-openocd/doc/usb_adapters
Antonio Borneo 2c191ef1da doc: usb_adapters: add container for lsusb dump of adapters
When extending an existing adapter driver, developer has to
carefully avoid to break backward compatibility.
But not all developers have access to many adapters for testing.

Prepare a folder aimed at containing 'lsusb -v' dumps of adapters
to be used as reference.
Add documentation and a simple dump script.

Change-Id: Ia3a9132d65ec8869734721f9605cebcebcf33608
Signed-off-by: Antonio Borneo <borneo.antonio@gmail.com>
Reviewed-on: https://review.openocd.org/c/openocd/+/7296
Tested-by: jenkins
2023-01-15 15:04:57 +00:00
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readme.txt doc: usb_adapters: add container for lsusb dump of adapters 2023-01-15 15:04:57 +00:00

readme.txt

# 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.