<div dir="ltr">Thanks for the quick reply! Ya, I'm new to all this so I didn't know this either, I was vaguely aware of USB composite devices from other projects, but never how it was all enumerated.<br><br>I dug a bit more on this and I'm convinced the relationship is this:<br>Device<br>└── Configuration 1<br> ├── Interface 1<br> │ ├── Endpoint 1<br> │ ├── Endpoint 2<br> │ └── ...<br> ├── Interface 2<br> │ └── ...<br> └── ...<br>└── Configuration 2<br> ├── Interface 1<br> │ ├── Endpoint 1<br> │ └── ...<br> └── ...<br><br>I got this from pages like this <a href="https://wiki.osdev.org/Universal_Serial_Bus" target="_blank">https://wiki.osdev.org/Universal_Serial_Bus</a>, which says:<br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">All USB devices, or functions, have at least one configuration, and every configuration has at least one interface. An interface may define zero or more endpoints. <br></span><br>Reading about multiple configurations, they appear to be intended for things like a USB device operating in high-speed or low-speed mode, or a debug vs normal mode, or maybe high vs low power mode. Given this, hid_rep_index (which libusb1.h defines as "number of the interface we use in a composite USB device") is absolutely not the right thing to pass to libusb_get_config_descriptor(), because the number of configurations are not related to the index of the interface being used. Passing 0 would be better than the current code, because 0 is what happens with not-composite devices (most UPS devices) and I bet even among the composite ones, there's only one config descriptor on the device<br><br>I'll look at doing changes you mentioned. I've looked only briefly at the "addvars" code, so I don't know if it's possible to have a default without requiring subdriver authors to worry about this. Most won't care and we shouldn't make them. It should just be there as an option in case someone needs to support a really unusual device. Looking at the codebase and list archives, you all seem to get a lot of those on this project :-)</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Nov 5, 2023 at 3:01 PM Jim Klimov <<a href="mailto:jimklimov%2Bnut@gmail.com" target="_blank">jimklimov+nut@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Thank you for the investigation!</div><div><br></div><div>I've thought about this in vague terms, i.e. that numbers like this should be configurable, but did not have time to read into USB-related libraries and specs to make any more specific sense of it (and the libusb code is not mine except the recent layers of cleanup). I guess I did not even realize that there is more than the regularly mentioned "interface number" to juggle here.</div><div><br></div><div>So if you manage to reliably pinpoint which interface concept applies where, and add configurability to that with `addvar()` in `drivers/libusb1.c` (and `drivers/libusb0.c` if applicable/possible there) and `docs/man/nut_usb_addvars.txt` -- so this change applies consistently to all USB-aware drivers, and if it all works - that would be a welcome improvement :D<br></div><div><br></div><div>Jim</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Nov 5, 2023 at 11:29 PM Kelly Byrd <<a href="mailto:kbyrd@memcpy.com" target="_blank">kbyrd@memcpy.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi all, <br>I posted originally here last week:<br><a href="https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/nut-upsuser/2023-October/013461.html" target="_blank">https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/nut-upsuser/2023-October/013461.html</a><br><div><br>Since then, I've been building and testing from source following the instructions a helpful reply in the above thread pointed out. The original problem is I've got one of these arduino HID power devices, as a project for a DIY UPS at home. This arduino is a composite USB device, CDC is on interface one, HID Power on Interface 2. According to the NUT source tree, an arduino HID subdriver came in a couple of years ago (e07bec1), so this should "just work" ;-) But it doesn't for me.<br><br>I traced what I think the problem is to this section in libusb1.c</div><div>diff --git a/drivers/libusb1.c b/drivers/libusb1.c<br>index 17f4b8f74..f49cc78aa 100644<br>--- a/drivers/libusb1.c<br>+++ b/drivers/libusb1.c<br>@@ -420,7 +420,7 @@ static int nut_libusb_open(libusb_device_handle **udevp,<br><br> upsdebugx(2, "Reading first configuration descriptor");<br> ret = libusb_get_config_descriptor(device,<br>- (uint8_t)usb_subdriver.hid_rep_index,<br>+ 0, //(uint8_t)usb_subdriver.hid_rep_index,<br> &conf_desc);<br> /*ret = libusb_get_active_config_descriptor(device, &conf_desc);*/<br><br>When running from commit ab55bc0 on master, I end up with <br>usb_subdriver.hid_rep_index = 2 and libusb_get_config_descriptor returns is -5 (Entity not found), conf_desc is not filled in and then it ends up in this code section:<br> if (!conf_desc) { /* ?? this should never happen */<br> upsdebugx(2, " Couldn't retrieve descriptors");<br> goto next_device;<br> }<br><br>With my hacked in test code to force 0 as the config_index the usbhid-ups driver (and the arduino subdriver) appear happy, I see reports, I see state changes for my AC Present, etc.<br><br>From my brief reading about USB it appears to me that the "tree" of descriptors is like this:<br>- A device descriptor has one or more configuration descriptors (bNumConfigurations in libusb_device_descriptor) <br>- Each configuration descriptor has one or more interface descriptors (bNumInterfaces in libusb_config_descriptor) <br>- Each interface descriptor has one or more endpoint descriptors <br><br>I've done just enough reading to think that while it is rare to have more than one interface, it is even more rare to have more than one configuration. A multi-interface composite device will often still have one configuration (index 0), and which configuration is correct has nothing to do with using an alternate interface on these composite USB devices. I've seen reference to multiple configurations being rare and for things like a high power vs low power mode, but this is out of my depth. In any case, it appears to me that calling libusb_get_config_descriptor(device, 0, &conf_desc) should work for nearly everyone. <br><br>I'm happy to put a PR together for this simple change (looking at the code, it feels like it should always be calling the commented out libusb_get_active_config_descriptor, but I'm not sure why that is commented out). I don't know enough about USB to know how NUT would know which config to choose if there were several, just that it appears to me that configurations own interfaces, not the other way around. <br><br>It looks like the most flexible thing would be to create a new member in usb_communication_subdriver_t, maybe called usb_config_index (I don't know if config descriptors are HID specific?) This member would be a lot like hid_desc_index. It would default to zero but be available for those USB subdrivers that needed something other than the default. <br><br>Please let me know if I'm on the right track! In the meantime, I can get my DIY project running for my specific device. <br><br><br></div></div>
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