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Pull driver core patches for 3.4-rc1 from Greg KH: "Here's the big driver core merge for 3.4-rc1. Lots of various things here, sysfs fixes/tweaks (with the nlink breakage reverted), dynamic debugging updates, w1 drivers, hyperv driver updates, and a variety of other bits and pieces, full information in the shortlog." * tag 'driver-core-3.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (78 commits) Tools: hv: Support enumeration from all the pools Tools: hv: Fully support the new KVP verbs in the user level daemon Drivers: hv: Support the newly introduced KVP messages in the driver Drivers: hv: Add new message types to enhance KVP regulator: Support driver probe deferral Revert "sysfs: Kill nlink counting." uevent: send events in correct order according to seqnum (v3) driver core: minor comment formatting cleanups driver core: move the deferred probe pointer into the private area drivercore: Add driver probe deferral mechanism DS2781 Maxim Stand-Alone Fuel Gauge battery and w1 slave drivers w1_bq27000: Only one thread can access the bq27000 at a time. w1_bq27000 - remove w1_bq27000_write w1_bq27000: remove unnecessary NULL test. sysfs: Fix memory leak in sysfs_sd_setsecdata(). intel_idle: Revert change of auto_demotion_disable_flags for Nehalem w1: Fix w1_bq27000 driver-core: documentation: fix up Greg's email address powernow-k6: Really enable auto-loading powernow-k7: Fix CPU family number ...
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 ("khubd").
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.