Bulk Requests

Use bulk requests to send data that is not time-critical. Bulk requests can take several USB frames to complete, depending on overall bus load.

All requests must receive an initialized message block. See the mblk(9S) man page for a description of the mblk_t message block type. This message block either supplies the data or stores the data, depending on the transfer direction. Refer to the usb_bulk_request(9S) man page for more details.

The USB_ATTRS_ONE_XFER and USB_ATTRS_ISOC_* flags are invalid attributes for all bulk requests. The USB_ATTRS_SHORT_XFER_OK flag is valid only for host-bound requests.

The usb_pipe_get_max_bulk_transfer_size(9F) function specifies the maximum number of bytes per request. The value retrieved can be the maximum value used in the client driver's minphys(9F) routine.

Multiple bulk requests can be queued.