Welcome to the home of the Linux USB Project

This web site was created to serve as a central point of information for USB support under Linux. We've released our first press release.

Information on this web site

The information on this web site mostly revolves around the kernel USB stack originally coded by Linus:

Kernel USB stack (aka Linus' Alternative USB stack)
This stack was originally developed by Linus Torvalds as an alternative USB stack for Linux. Since his original announcement, many other people have submitted patches to fix various bugs and add support for other features and was first introduced into the main kernel tree with kernel v2.2.7.

NOTE: USB development is now being done in the 2.5 kernel tree. A lot was done in the 2.4 kernel and some features from 2.5 will be backported there. Much of USB support has been backported and is available starting with 2.2.18. It is listed a few lines below. USB-Storage is not supported in the 2.2 line of kernels.

Results of email to open source the Philips Webcam driver.