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+==============
+USB Raw Gadget
+==============
+
+USB Raw Gadget is a kernel module that provides a userspace interface for
+the USB Gadget subsystem. Essentially it allows to emulate USB devices
+from userspace. Enabled with CONFIG_USB_RAW_GADGET. Raw Gadget is
+currently a strictly debugging feature and shouldn't be used in
+production, use GadgetFS instead.
+
+Comparison to GadgetFS
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Raw Gadget is similar to GadgetFS, but provides a more low-level and
+direct access to the USB Gadget layer for the userspace. The key
+differences are:
+
+1. Every USB request is passed to the userspace to get a response, while
+   GadgetFS responds to some USB requests internally based on the provided
+   descriptors. However note, that the UDC driver might respond to some
+   requests on its own and never forward them to the Gadget layer.
+
+2. GadgetFS performs some sanity checks on the provided USB descriptors,
+   while Raw Gadget allows you to provide arbitrary data as responses to
+   USB requests.
+
+3. Raw Gadget provides a way to select a UDC device/driver to bind to,
+   while GadgetFS currently binds to the first available UDC.
+
+4. Raw Gadget explicitly exposes information about endpoints addresses and
+   capabilities allowing a user to write UDC-agnostic gadgets.
+
+5. Raw Gadget has ioctl-based interface instead of a filesystem-based one.
+
+Userspace interface
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+To create a Raw Gadget instance open /dev/raw-gadget. Multiple raw-gadget
+instances (bound to different UDCs) can be used at the same time. The
+interaction with the opened file happens through the ioctl() calls, see
+comments in include/uapi/linux/usb/raw_gadget.h for details.
+
+The typical usage of Raw Gadget looks like:
+
+1. Open Raw Gadget instance via /dev/raw-gadget.
+2. Initialize the instance via USB_RAW_IOCTL_INIT.
+3. Launch the instance with USB_RAW_IOCTL_RUN.
+4. In a loop issue USB_RAW_IOCTL_EVENT_FETCH calls to receive events from
+   Raw Gadget and react to those depending on what kind of USB device
+   needs to be emulated.
+
+Note, that some UDC drivers have fixed addresses assigned to endpoints, and
+therefore arbitrary endpoint addresses can't be used in the descriptors.
+Nevertheles, Raw Gadget provides a UDC-agnostic way to write USB gadgets.
+Once a USB_RAW_EVENT_CONNECT event is received via USB_RAW_IOCTL_EVENT_FETCH,
+the USB_RAW_IOCTL_EPS_INFO ioctl can be used to find out information about
+endpoints that the UDC driver has. Based on that information, the user must
+chose UDC endpoints that will be used for the gadget being emulated, and
+properly assign addresses in endpoint descriptors.
+
+You can find usage examples (along with a test suite) here:
+
+https://github.com/xairy/raw-gadget
+
+Internal details
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Currently every endpoint read/write ioctl submits a USB request and waits until
+its completion. This is the desired mode for coverage-guided fuzzing (as we'd
+like all USB request processing happen during the lifetime of a syscall),
+and must be kept in the implementation. (This might be slow for real world
+applications, thus the O_NONBLOCK improvement suggestion below.)
+
+Potential future improvements
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- Report more events (suspend, resume, etc.) through USB_RAW_IOCTL_EVENT_FETCH.
+
+- Support O_NONBLOCK I/O.
+
+- Support USB 3 features (accept SS endpoint companion descriptor when
+  enabling endpoints; allow providing stream_id for bulk transfers).
+
+- Support ISO transfer features (expose frame_number for completed requests).