libusb

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.

libusb
Initial release2007 (2007)[1]
Stable release
1.0.23[2] / August 28, 2019 (2019-08-28)
Repositorygithub.com/libusb/libusb.git
Written inC
Type
LicenseLGPL 2.1
Websitelibusb.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).

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, Solaris, OS X, Windows, Android, and Haiku[5]. It 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.

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See also

References
  1. https://github.com/libusb/libusb/commit/852bba4754ec57679c823f33e8feba6e4a564cbe
  2. "Releases - libusb/libusb". Retrieved 28 August 2018 – via GitHub.
  3. "ControlGroupInterface". freedesktop.org.
  4. "libevdev". freedesktop.org.
  5. https://github.com/libusb/libusb/commit/dc97425bb415422423b8876af0e34111e566d56d


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