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Pull MIPS updates from Ralf Baechle: - three fixes for 3.15 that didn't make it in time - limited Octeon 3 support. - paravirtualization support - improvment to platform support for Netlogix SOCs. - add support for powering down the Malta eval board in software - add many instructions to the in-kernel microassembler. - add support for the BPF JIT. - minor cleanups of the BCM47xx code. - large cleanup of math emu code resulting in significant code size reduction, better readability of the code and more accurate emulation. - improvments to the MIPS CPS code. - support C3 power status for the R4k count/compare clock device. - improvments to the GIO support for older SGI workstations. - increase number of supported CPUs to 256; this can be reached on certain embedded multithreaded ccNUMA configurations. - various small cleanups, updates and fixes * 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus: (173 commits) MIPS: IP22/IP28: Improve GIO support MIPS: Octeon: Add twsi interrupt initialization for OCTEON 3XXX, 5XXX, 63XX DEC: Document the R4k MB ASIC mini interrupt controller DEC: Add self as the maintainer MIPS: Add microMIPS MSA support. MIPS: Replace calls to obsolete strict_strto call with kstrto* equivalents. MIPS: Replace obsolete strict_strto call with kstrto MIPS: BFP: Simplify code slightly. MIPS: Call find_vma with the mmap_sem held MIPS: Fix 'write_msa_##' inline macro. MIPS: Fix MSA toolchain support detection. mips: Update the email address of Geert Uytterhoeven MIPS: Add minimal defconfig for mips_paravirt MIPS: Enable build for new system 'paravirt' MIPS: paravirt: Add pci controller for virtio MIPS: Add code for new system 'paravirt' MIPS: Add functions for hypervisor call MIPS: OCTEON: Add OCTEON3 to __get_cpu_type MIPS: Add function get_ebase_cpunum MIPS: Add minimal support for OCTEON3 to c-r4k.c ...
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.