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/*
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- * This file holds USB constants and structures that are needed for USB
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- * device APIs. These are used by the USB device model, which is defined
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- * in chapter 9 of the USB 2.0 specification. Linux has several APIs in C
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- * that need these:
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+ * This file holds USB constants and structures that are needed for
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+ * USB device APIs. These are used by the USB device model, which is
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+ * defined in chapter 9 of the USB 2.0 specification and in the
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+ * Wireless USB 1.0 (spread around). Linux has several APIs in C that
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+ * need these:
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*
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* - the master/host side Linux-USB kernel driver API;
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* - the "usbfs" user space API; and
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@@ -14,6 +15,19 @@
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*
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* There's also "Wireless USB", using low power short range radios for
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* peripheral interconnection but otherwise building on the USB framework.
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+ *
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+ * Note all descriptors are declared '__attribute__((packed))' so that:
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+ *
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+ * [a] they never get padded, either internally (USB spec writers
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+ * probably handled that) or externally;
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+ *
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+ * [b] so that accessing bigger-than-a-bytes fields will never
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+ * generate bus errors on any platform, even when the location of
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+ * its descriptor inside a bundle isn't "naturally aligned", and
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+ *
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+ * [c] for consistency, removing all doubt even when it appears to
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+ * someone that the two other points are non-issues for that
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+ * particular descriptor type.
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*/
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#ifndef __LINUX_USB_CH9_H
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