libusb

libusb
Initial release 2007 (2007)[1]
Stable release
1.0.22[2] / March 25, 2018 (2018-03-25)
Repository github.com/libusb/libusb.git
Written in C
Type
License LGPL 2.1
Website libusb.info
The Linux API is composed out of the System Call Interface of the Linux kernel, the GNU C Library, libcgroup,[3] libdrm, libalsa and libevdev[4] (by freedesktop.org).

libusb is a library that provides applications with access for controlling data transfer to and from USB devices on Unix and non-Unix systems, without the need for kernel-mode drivers.

Rationale

Because the Linux kernel is a monolithic type of kernel, device drivers are part of it.

Availability

libusb is currently available for Linux, the BSDs, OS X, Windows, Android, Haiku,[5] and is written in C.

Amongst other applications, the library is used by SANE, the Linux scanner project, in preference to the kernel scanner module, which is restricted to Linux kernel 2.4.

See also

References

  1. ↑ https://github.com/libusb/libusb/commit/852bba4754ec57679c823f33e8feba6e4a564cbe
  2. ↑ "Releases - libusb/libusb". Retrieved 19 July 2018 – via GitHub.
  3. ↑ "ControlGroupInterface". freedesktop.org.
  4. ↑ "libevdev". freedesktop.org.
  5. ↑ https://github.com/libusb/libusb/commit/dc97425bb415422423b8876af0e34111e566d56d


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