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Pull staging and IIO updates from Greg KH: "Here is the "big" staging and IIO driver update for 4.15-rc1. Lots and lots of little changes, almost all minor code cleanups as the Outreachy application process happened during this development cycle. Also happened was a lot of IIO driver activity, and the typec USB code moving out of staging to drivers/usb (same commits are in the USB tree on a persistent branch to not cause merge issues.) Overall, it's a wash, I think we added a few hundred more lines than removed, but really only a few thousand were modified at all. All of these have been in linux-next for a while. There might be a merge issue with Al's vfs tree in the pi433 driver (take his changes, they are always better), and the media tree with some of the odd atomisp cleanups (take the media tree's version)" * tag 'staging-4.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging: (507 commits) staging: lustre: add SPDX identifiers to all lustre files staging: greybus: Remove redundant license text staging: greybus: add SPDX identifiers to all greybus driver files staging: ccree: simplify ioread/iowrite staging: ccree: simplify registers access staging: ccree: simplify error handling logic staging: ccree: remove dead code staging: ccree: handle limiting of DMA masks staging: ccree: copy IV to DMAable memory staging: fbtft: remove redundant initialization of buf staging: sm750fb: Fix parameter mistake in poke32 staging: wilc1000: Fix bssid buffer offset in Txq staging: fbtft: fb_ssd1331: fix mirrored display staging: android: Fix checkpatch.pl error staging: greybus: loopback: convert loopback to use generic async operations staging: greybus: operation: add private data with get/set accessors staging: greybus: loopback: Fix iteration count on async path staging: greybus: loopback: Hold per-connection mutex across operations staging: greybus/loopback: use ktime_get() for time intervals staging: fsl-dpaa2/eth: Extra headroom in RX buffers ...
To understand all the Linux-USB framework, you'll use these resources:
* This source code. This is necessarily an evolving work, and
includes kerneldoc that should help you get a current overview.
("make pdfdocs", and then look at "usb.pdf" for host side and
"gadget.pdf" for peripheral side.) Also, Documentation/usb has
more information.
* The USB 2.0 specification (from www.usb.org), with supplements
such as those for USB OTG and the various device classes.
The USB specification has a good overview chapter, and USB
peripherals conform to the widely known "Chapter 9".
* Chip specifications for USB controllers. Examples include
host controllers (on PCs, servers, and more); peripheral
controllers (in devices with Linux firmware, like printers or
cell phones); and hard-wired peripherals like Ethernet adapters.
* Specifications for other protocols implemented by USB peripheral
functions. Some are vendor-specific; others are vendor-neutral
but just standardized outside of the www.usb.org team.
Here is a list of what each subdirectory here is, and what is contained in
them.
core/ - This is for the core USB host code, including the
usbfs files and the hub class driver ("hub_wq").
host/ - This is for USB host controller drivers. This
includes UHCI, OHCI, EHCI, and others that might
be used with more specialized "embedded" systems.
gadget/ - This is for USB peripheral controller drivers and
the various gadget drivers which talk to them.
Individual USB driver directories. A new driver should be added to the
first subdirectory in the list below that it fits into.
image/ - This is for still image drivers, like scanners or
digital cameras.
../input/ - This is for any driver that uses the input subsystem,
like keyboard, mice, touchscreens, tablets, etc.
../media/ - This is for multimedia drivers, like video cameras,
radios, and any other drivers that talk to the v4l
subsystem.
../net/ - This is for network drivers.
serial/ - This is for USB to serial drivers.
storage/ - This is for USB mass-storage drivers.
class/ - This is for all USB device drivers that do not fit
into any of the above categories, and work for a range
of USB Class specified devices.
misc/ - This is for all USB device drivers that do not fit
into any of the above categories.