[PATCH RFC 0/2] rust: usb: abstractions towards the port of usbsevseg.c to Rust
Alexandru Radovici <[email protected]> Sat, 01 Aug 2026 03:01:06 +0300
| Newsgroups | org.kernel.vger.rust-for-linux,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.linux-usb |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
My end goal is to port the usbsevseg.c USB driver to Rust. That driver is small enough to make a useful first target; the remaining piece it needs is sysfs attribute support for USB devices, which I plan to send separately. Porting the driver requires: - retrieving endpoints and sending control messages API (this series) - enabling sysfs attributes API for USB devices (future patch) These patches add the USB abstractions needed to port drivers/usb/misc/usbsevseg.c to Rust: retrieving an interface's endpoints, and sending and receiving control messages. Patch 1 adds `AlternateEndpoint`, along with `AlternateSetting` and the accessors needed to reach one. Patch 2 adds the control transfer methods and the `Request` type describing a setup packet. The part I would most like feedback on is the typestate design in patch 1. `HostEndpoint` is generic over a direction and a transfer type, both sealed 1-ZST markers, so a function can require e.g. `&HostEndpoint<In, Bulk>` and skip checking the descriptor itself. Control endpoints get a `Bidirectional` marker rather than a direction, since bit 7 of bEndpointAddress is ignored for them. I am not sure whether this earns its complexity for the drivers we expect, or whether plain run-time check would be better. Only `as_control()`, `as_in()` and `as_out()` are implemented so far; `as_bulk()`, `as_interrupt()` and `as_isochronous()` are skiped for now as no current user needs them. Signed-off-by: Alexandru Radovici <[email protected]> --- Alexandru Radovici (2): rust: usb: add endpoint abstraction rust: usb: add control message send and receive rust/kernel/usb.rs | 127 ++++++++++- rust/kernel/usb/control.rs | 353 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ rust/kernel/usb/endpoint.rs | 508 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 987 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- base-commit: 8ba098e6b6ff0db8edf28528d1552be261af30d4 change-id: 20260801-rust-usb_control_msg-ee34e002b818 Best regards, -- Alexandru Radovici <[email protected]>