drivers/usb/gadget/Kconfig
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File Facts
- System
- Linux kernel
- Corpus path
drivers/usb/gadget/Kconfig- Extension
[no extension]- Size
- 16082 bytes
- Lines
- 512
- Domain
- Driver Families
- Bucket
- drivers/usb
- Inferred role
- Driver Families: build/configuration rule
- Status
- atlas-only
Why This File Exists
Repeatable hardware-adapter layer. Deep compatibility for every driver is out of scope; this atlas records patterns, probe lifecycles, bus glue, IRQ/DMA usage, and links back to core abstractions.
- Repeatable hardware-adapter layer. Deep compatibility for every driver is out of scope; this atlas records patterns, probe lifecycles, bus glue, IRQ/DMA usage, and links back to core abstractions.
Dependency Surface
- No C-style include directives detected by the generator.
Detected Declarations
- No top-level syscall, struct, function, initcall, or export declaration detected by the generator.
Annotated Snippet
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
#
# USB Gadget support on a system involves
# (a) a peripheral controller, and
# (b) the gadget driver using it.
#
# NOTE: Gadget support ** DOES NOT ** depend on host-side CONFIG_USB !!
#
# - Host systems (like PCs) need CONFIG_USB (with "A" jacks).
# - Peripherals (like PDAs) need CONFIG_USB_GADGET (with "B" jacks).
# - Some systems have both kinds of controllers.
#
# With help from a special transceiver and a "Mini-AB" jack, systems with
# both kinds of controller can also support "USB On-the-Go" (CONFIG_USB_OTG).
#
menuconfig USB_GADGET
tristate "USB Gadget Support"
select USB_COMMON
select NLS
help
USB is a host/device protocol, organized with one host (such as a
PC) controlling up to 127 peripheral devices.
The USB hardware is asymmetric, which makes it easier to set up:
you can't connect a "to-the-host" connector to a peripheral.
Linux can run in the host, or in the peripheral. In both cases
you need a low level bus controller driver, and some software
talking to it. Peripheral controllers are often discrete silicon,
or are integrated with the CPU in a microcontroller. The more
familiar host side controllers have names like "EHCI", "OHCI",
or "UHCI", and are usually integrated into southbridges on PC
motherboards.
Enable this configuration option if you want to run Linux inside
a USB peripheral device. Configure one hardware driver for your
peripheral/device side bus controller, and a "gadget driver" for
your peripheral protocol. (If you use modular gadget drivers,
you may configure more than one.)
If in doubt, say "N" and don't enable these drivers; most people
don't have this kind of hardware (except maybe inside Linux PDAs).
For more information, see <http://www.linux-usb.org/gadget> and
the kernel documentation for this API.
if USB_GADGET
config USB_GADGET_DEBUG
bool "Debugging messages (DEVELOPMENT)"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
help
Many controller and gadget drivers will print some debugging
messages if you use this option to ask for those messages.
Avoid enabling these messages, even if you're actively
debugging such a driver. Many drivers will emit so many
messages that the driver timings are affected, which will
either create new failure modes or remove the one you're
trying to track down. Never enable these messages for a
production build.
config USB_GADGET_VERBOSE
bool "Verbose debugging Messages (DEVELOPMENT)"
depends on USB_GADGET_DEBUG
help
Many controller and gadget drivers will print verbose debugging
messages if you use this option to ask for those messages.
Avoid enabling these messages, even if you're actively
Annotation
- Atlas domain: Driver Families / drivers/usb.
- Implementation status: atlas-only.
Implementation Notes
- This generated page is the file-by-file coverage layer; curated subsystem chapters should link here when they synthesize a multi-file control flow.
- Core OS pages should be promoted from atlas-only to deep-reviewed when they explain data structures, invariants, locking, lifecycle, and C implementation snippets.
- Driver-family pages are intentionally pattern-oriented unless they are part of the selected PCIe/NVMe representative device path.