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Pull tty/serial driver updates from Greg KH: "Here is the big set of tty and serial driver patches for 4.17-rc1 Not all that big really, most are just small fixes and additions to existing drivers. There's a bunch of work on the imx serial driver recently for some reason, and a new embedded serial driver added as well. Full details are in the shortlog. All of these have been in the linux-next tree for a while with no reported issues" * tag 'tty-4.17-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (66 commits) serial: expose buf_overrun count through proc interface serial: mvebu-uart: fix tx lost characters tty: serial: msm_geni_serial: Fix return value check in qcom_geni_serial_probe() tty: serial: msm_geni_serial: Add serial driver support for GENI based QUP 8250-men-mcb: add support for 16z025 and 16z057 powerpc: Mark the variable earlycon_acpi_spcr_enable maybe_unused serial: stm32: fix initialization of RS485 mode ARM: dts: STi: Remove "console=ttyASN" from bootargs for STi boards vt: change SGR 21 to follow the standards serdev: Fix typo in serdev_device_alloc ARM: dts: STi: Fix aliases property name for STi boards tty: st-asc: Update tty alias serial: stm32: add support for RS485 hardware control mode dt-bindings: serial: stm32: add RS485 optional properties selftests: add devpts selftests devpts: comment devpts_mntget() devpts: resolve devpts bind-mounts devpts: hoist out check for DEVPTS_SUPER_MAGIC serial: 8250: Add Nuvoton NPCM UART serial: mxs-auart: disable clks of Alphascale ASM9260 ...
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.