libusb

Initial release	2007 (2007)[1]
Stable release	1.0.26[2]  / 10 April 2022; 21 months ago (10 April 2022)
Repository	github.com/libusb/libusb.git
Written in	C
Type	Application programming interface Linux on the desktop
License	LGPL 2.1
Website	libusb.info

libusb is a library that provides applications with access for controlling data transfer to and from USB devices on Unix and non-Unix systems, without the need for kernel-mode drivers.

Availability

libusb is currently available for Linux, the BSDs, Solaris, OS X, Windows, Android, and Haiku.^[5] It is written in C.

Amongst other applications, the library is used by SANE, the Linux scanner project, in preference to the kernel scanner module, which is restricted to Linux kernel 2.4.