Man page 9 : usb_gadget_get_string

usb_gadget_get_string - fill out a string descriptor

int usb_gadget_get_string(struct usb_gadget_strings *  table , int  id , u8 *  buf );

table
    of c strings encoded using UTF-8

id
    string id, from low byte of wValue in get string descriptor

buf
    at least 256 bytes, must be 16-bit aligned

Finds the UTF-8 string matching the ID, and converts it into a string descriptor in utf16-le. Returns length of descriptor (always even) or negative errno

If your driver needs stings in multiple languages, youAqll probably « switch (wIndex) { ... } » in your ep0 string descriptor logic, using this routine after choosing which set of UTF-8 strings to use. Note that US-ASCII is a strict subset of UTF-8; any string bytes with the eighth bit set will be multibyte UTF-8 characters, not ISO-8859/1 characters (which are also widely used in C strings).

David Brownell <>
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