Method and apparatus for modifying USB device driver matching information

• US 8,527,670 B2
• Filed: 02/29/2012
• Issued: 09/03/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/02/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Device Company Limited (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Device Company Limited (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Jiang, Wenchun, Xue, Guiying
• Primary Examiner(s): RHU, KRIS M
• Application Number:
  US13/408,113
• Publication Number:
  US 20120159010A1
• Time in Patent Office: 552 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 710/16
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/102 where the programme performs an interfacing function, e.g. device driver G06F13/105 takes precedence; scheduling within device drivers G06F9/52; contention policies within device drivers G06F9/4881
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2213/0042 Universal serial bus [USB]

Abstract

A method for modifying a USB device driver matching string includes: when a plug-and-play manager sends a request for querying device information to a physical device object, capturing, by a filter driver, the request for querying device information, and sending the request to an enumeration driver; receiving, by the filter driver, device information that is returned, according to the request for querying device information, by the enumeration driver, and forming, according to the returned device information and compatibility information of the device, a device driver matching string; and sending the device driver matching string to the plug-and-play manager.

Claims

1. A method for modifying a USB device driver matching string, comprising:

capturing, by a filter driver, a request for querying device information, when a plug-and-play manager sends the request for querying device information to a physical device object, and sending the captured request for querying device information to an enumeration driver;

receiving, by the filter driver, device information that is returned, according to the request for querying device information, by the enumeration driver, and forming, according to the returned device information and compatibility information of the device, a device driver matching string that comprises a device vendor identification, a device subclass, and a device protocol type; and

sending the formed device driver matching string to the plug-and-play manager.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein before the filter driver forms, according to the returned device information and compatibility information of the device, a device driver matching string that comprises a device vendor identification, a device subclass, and a device protocol type, the method further comprises:

sending, by the filter driver, a request for querying compatibility information of the device to the physical device object to obtain the compatibility information of the device, wherein the compatibility information of the device comprises a device class, a device subclass, and a device protocol type.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the device information is in a form of a string and the device information comprises a device vendor identification, a product identification, and a product-port number.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein before sending the captured request for querying device information to the enumeration driver, the method further comprises:

registering a completion callback function for the captured request for querying device information, so that when the enumeration driver returns the device information according to the request for querying device information, the registered completion callback function is invoked to perform an operation of forming the device driver matching string according to the device information and the compatibility information.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein the device information is in a form of a string and the device information comprises a device vendor identification, a product identification, and a product-port number.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein before the filter driver captures the request for querying device information, the method further comprises:

capturing, by the filter driver, a request for querying a device list, when the plug-and-play manager sends the request for querying a device list, and sending the captured request for querying a device list to the enumeration driver; and

receiving, by the filter driver, a device list that is returned, according to the request for querying a device list, by the enumeration driver, creating a filter device object for each device in the device list according to the device list, and adding the created filter device object to a corresponding child device stack, so that the filter driver captures, according to the filter device object in the child device stack, the request for querying device information.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the device information is in a form of a string and the device information comprises a device vendor identification, a product identification, and a product-port number.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the device information is in a form of a string and the device information comprises a device vendor identification, a product identification, and a product-port number.

9. An apparatus for modifying a USB device driver matching string, comprising:

an information request capturing module, configured to capture a request for querying device information when a plug-and-play manager sends the request for querying device information to a physical device object;

an information request sending module, configured to send the request for querying device information captured by the information request capturing module to an enumeration driver;

an information receiving module, configured to receive device information that is returned, according to the request for querying device information, by the enumeration driver;

a forming module, configured to form, according to the returned device information and compatibility information of the device, a device driver matching string that comprises a device vendor identification, a device subclass, and a device protocol type; and

a string sending module, configured to send the device driver matching string formed by the forming module to the plug-and-play manager.

10. The apparatus according to claim 9, further comprising:

a compatibility information obtaining module, configured to;

before the device driver matching string that comprises the device vendor identification, the device subclass, and the device protocol type is formed according to the returned device information and the compatibility information of the device, send a request for querying the compatibility information of the device to the physical device object to obtain the compatibility information of the device, wherein the compatibility information comprises a device class, a device subclass, and a device protocol type.

11. The apparatus according to claims 10, wherein the device information is in a form of a string and the device information comprises a device vendor identification, a product identification, and a product-port number.

12. The apparatus according to claim 9, further comprising:

a registering module, configured to;

before the information request sending module sends the captured request for querying device information to the enumeration driver, register a completion callback function for the request for querying device information, so that when the enumeration driver returns the device information according to the request for querying device information, the registered completion callback function is invoked to perform an operation of forming the device driver matching string according to the device information and the compatibility information.

13. The apparatus according to claims 12, wherein the device information is in a form of a string and the device information comprises a device vendor identification, a product identification, and a product-port number.

14. The apparatus according to claim 9, further comprising:

a list request capturing module, configured to capture a request for querying a device list, when the plug-and-play manager sends the request for querying the device list before the request for querying device information is captured;

a list request sending module, configured to send the request for querying a device list captured by the list request capturing module to the enumeration driver;

a list receiving module, configured to receive a device list that is returned, according to the request for querying a device list, by the enumeration driver;

a creating module, configured to create a filter device object for each device in the device list according to the device list received by the list receiving module; and

an adding module, configured to add the filter device object created by the creating module to a corresponding child device stack so as to capture the request for querying device information according to the filter device object in the child device stack.

15. The apparatus according to claims 14, wherein the device information is in a form of a string and the device information comprises a device vendor identification, a product identification, and a product-port number.

16. The apparatus according to claims 9, wherein the device information is in a form of a string and the device information comprises a device vendor identification, a product identification, and a product-port number.