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[PULL,7/7] docs: Fold usb2.txt passthrough information into usb.rst

Message ID 20210729125044.3531457-8-kraxel@redhat.com
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Gerd Hoffmann July 29, 2021, 12:50 p.m. UTC 
From: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>


Fold the usb2.txt information on device passthrough into usb.rst;
since this is the last part of the .txt file we can delete it now.

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>

Message-Id: <20210728141457.14825-5-peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>

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 docs/usb2.txt               | 58 -------------------------------------
 MAINTAINERS                 |  1 -
 docs/system/devices/usb.rst | 49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 59 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 docs/usb2.txt

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diff --git a/docs/usb2.txt b/docs/usb2.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 6a88d5314f9c..000000000000
--- a/docs/usb2.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,58 +0,0 @@ 
-
-More USB tips & tricks
-======================
-
-Recently the USB pass through driver (also known as usb-host) and the
-QEMU USB subsystem gained a few capabilities which are available only
-via qdev properties, i,e. when using '-device'.
-
-USB pass through hints
-----------------------
-
-The usb-host driver has a bunch of properties to specify the device
-which should be passed to the guest:
-
-  hostbus=<nr> -- Specifies the bus number the device must be attached
-  to.
-
-  hostaddr=<nr> -- Specifies the device address the device got
-  assigned by the guest os.
-
-  hostport=<str> -- Specifies the physical port the device is attached
-  to.
-
-  vendorid=<hexnr> -- Specifies the vendor ID of the device.
-  productid=<hexnr> -- Specifies the product ID of the device.
-
-In theory you can combine all these properties as you like.  In
-practice only a few combinations are useful:
-
-  (1) vendorid+productid -- match for a specific device, pass it to
-      the guest when it shows up somewhere in the host.
-
-  (2) hostbus+hostport -- match for a specific physical port in the
-      host, any device which is plugged in there gets passed to the
-      guest.
-
-  (3) hostbus+hostaddr -- most useful for ad-hoc pass through as the
-      hostaddr isn't stable, the next time you plug in the device it
-      gets a new one ...
-
-Note that USB 1.1 devices are handled by UHCI/OHCI and USB 2.0 by
-EHCI.  That means a device plugged into the very same physical port
-may show up on different buses depending on the speed.  The port I'm
-using for testing is bus 1 + port 1 for 2.0 devices and bus 3 + port 1
-for 1.1 devices.  Passing through any device plugged into that port
-and also assign them to the correct bus can be done this way:
-
-    qemu -M pc ${otheroptions}                               \
-        -usb                                                 \
-        -device usb-ehci,id=ehci                             \
-        -device usb-host,bus=usb-bus.0,hostbus=3,hostport=1  \
-        -device usb-host,bus=ehci.0,hostbus=1,hostport=1
-
-enjoy,
-  Gerd
-
---
-Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index b1f8e82befc6..2089e71007d6 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -1837,7 +1837,6 @@  F: hw/usb/*
 F: stubs/usb-dev-stub.c
 F: tests/qtest/usb-*-test.c
 F: docs/system/devices/usb.rst
-F: docs/usb-storage.txt
 F: include/hw/usb.h
 F: include/hw/usb/
 
diff --git a/docs/system/devices/usb.rst b/docs/system/devices/usb.rst
index bab0cd3fdfd1..afb7d6c2268d 100644
--- a/docs/system/devices/usb.rst
+++ b/docs/system/devices/usb.rst
@@ -300,3 +300,52 @@  are not supported yet.
 
 When relaunching QEMU, you may have to unplug and plug again the USB
 device to make it work again (this is a bug).
+
+``usb-host`` properties for specifying the host device
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+The example above uses the ``vendorid`` and ``productid`` to
+specify which host device to pass through, but this is not
+the only way to specify the host device. ``usb-host`` supports
+the following properties:
+
+``hostbus=<nr>``
+  Specifies the bus number the device must be attached to
+``hostaddr=<nr>``
+  Specifies the device address the device got assigned by the guest os
+``hostport=<str>``
+  Specifies the physical port the device is attached to
+``vendorid=<hexnr>``
+  Specifies the vendor ID of the device
+``productid=<hexnr>``
+  Specifies the product ID of the device.
+
+In theory you can combine all these properties as you like.  In
+practice only a few combinations are useful:
+
+- ``vendorid`` and ``productid`` -- match for a specific device, pass it to
+  the guest when it shows up somewhere in the host.
+
+- ``hostbus`` and ``hostport`` -- match for a specific physical port in the
+  host, any device which is plugged in there gets passed to the
+  guest.
+
+- ``hostbus`` and ``hostaddr`` -- most useful for ad-hoc pass through as the
+  hostaddr isn't stable. The next time you plug the device into the host it
+  will get a new hostaddr.
+
+Note that on the host USB 1.1 devices are handled by UHCI/OHCI and USB
+2.0 by EHCI.  That means different USB devices plugged into the very
+same physical port on the host may show up on different host buses
+depending on the speed. Supposing that devices plugged into a given
+physical port appear as bus 1 + port 1 for 2.0 devices and bus 3 + port 1
+for 1.1 devices, you can pass through any device plugged into that port
+and also assign it to the correct USB bus in QEMU like this:
+
+.. parsed-literal::
+
+   |qemu_system| -M pc [...]                            \\
+        -usb                                                 \\
+        -device usb-ehci,id=ehci                             \\
+        -device usb-host,bus=usb-bus.0,hostbus=3,hostport=1  \\
+        -device usb-host,bus=ehci.0,hostbus=1,hostport=1