Turn On/Off USB ports in QNX 6.5SP1

QNX DEVELOPERS Realtime and Embedded
1

Any sample codes available for turning ON/Off USB ports on a smart hub? (in QNX 6.5SP1)

2

With your version of QNX, do you have “/pps/qnx/device/usb_ctrl” in your root path ?
(The USB stack must be running).

3

I think usblauncher must be running too.

4

Can it be toggled using issuing usbd_feature() to the smart hub.

My target is not based out of pps service

5

Yes, this is possible but it’s quite complex.

6

Can you elaborate?

Thanks!

7

With PPS system, the command to turn USB ports ON/OFF is just one line.

Without PPS, you have to create your own USB port manager.

You can find the USB DDK documentation here : qnx.com/developers/docs/6.5. … b/api.html

I can’t provide you with the code I have but here is an abstract of things you have to do :

- usbd_connect()             using USBD_CONNECT_WILDCARD for all usbd_device_ident_t structure fields (unless you know the exact device ?)
- for all 64 possible devices : 
    - usbd_attach()
    - if success 
        - usbd_hub_descriptor()
        - if success
            - usbd_device_extra()
            - if success
                - set_port_feature(port, feature) or clear_port_feature(port, feature)  // ON or OFF (feature = USB_HUB_FEATURE_PORT_POWER)
        - usbd_detach()

set_port_feature() :
- usbd_alloc_urb()
- usbd_setup_vendor()
    - Flags        = URB_DIR_OUT;
    - bRequest     = USB_SET_FEATURE;
    - request_type = 0x23;
        usbd_setup_vendor(urb,                  // An opaque handle (from usbd_alloc_urb()).
                          Flags,                // URB_DIR_OUT—specify outgoing (PC-to-device) transfer.
                          bRequest,             // A device-specific request.
                          request_type,         // The type of request
                          Feature,              // wValue  -> This varies, depending on the request.
                          Port,                 // wIndex  -> This varies, depending on the request.
                          NULL,                 // Data    -> The address for the start of the transfer.
                          0);                   // wLength -> The length (in bytes) of the data transfer.
- usbd_io()
- usbd_free_urb()

clear_port_feature() :
- usbd_alloc_urb()
- usbd_setup_vendor()
    - Flags        = URB_DIR_OUT;
    - bRequest     = USB_CLEAR_FEATURE;
    - request_type = 0x23;
        usbd_setup_vendor(urb,                  // An opaque handle (from usbd_alloc_urb()).
                          Flags,                // URB_DIR_OUT—specify outgoing (PC-to-device) transfer.
                          bRequest,             // A device-specific request.
                          request_type,         // The type of request
                          Feature,              // wValue  -> This varies, depending on the request
                          Port,                 // wIndex  -> This varies, depending on the request
                          NULL,                 // Data    -> The address for the start of the transfer
                          0);                   // wLength -> The length (in bytes) of the data transfer.
- usbd_io()
- usbd_free_urb()