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Pull asm-generic cleanups from Arnd Bergmann: "The asm-generic changes for 4.4 are mostly a series from Christoph Hellwig to clean up various abuses of headers in there. The patch to rename the io-64-nonatomic-*.h headers caused some conflicts with new users, so I added a workaround that we can remove in the next merge window. The only other patch is a warning fix from Marek Vasut" * tag 'asm-generic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic: asm-generic: temporarily add back asm-generic/io-64-nonatomic*.h asm-generic: cmpxchg: avoid warnings from macro-ized cmpxchg() implementations gpio-mxc: stop including <asm-generic/bug> n_tracesink: stop including <asm-generic/bug> n_tracerouter: stop including <asm-generic/bug> mlx5: stop including <asm-generic/kmap_types.h> hifn_795x: stop including <asm-generic/kmap_types.h> drbd: stop including <asm-generic/kmap_types.h> move count_zeroes.h out of asm-generic move io-64-nonatomic*.h out of asm-generic
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.