This patch (as1197) fixes an error introduced recently. Since a
significant number of devices can't handle Set-Interface requests, we
no longer call usb_set_interface() when a driver unbinds from an
interface, provided the interface is already in altsetting 0. However
the interface still does get disabled, and the call to
usb_set_interface() was the only thing re-enabling it. Since the
interface doesn't get re-enabled, further attempts to use it fail.
So the patch adds a call to usb_enable_interface() when a driver
unbinds and the interface is in altsetting 0. For this to work
right, the interface's endpoints have to be re-enabled but their
toggles have to be left alone. Therefore an additional argument is
added to usb_enable_endpoint() and usb_enable_interface(), a flag
indicating whether or not the endpoint toggles should be reset.
This is a forward-ported version of a patch which fixes Bugzilla
#12301.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Reported-by: David Roka <roka@dawid.hu>
Reported-by: Erik Ekman <erik@kryo.se>
Tested-by: Erik Ekman <erik@kryo.se>
Tested-by: Alon Bar-Lev <alon.barlev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch (as1185) makes usbcore take advantage of the bus
notifications sent out by the driver core. Now we can create all our
device and interface attribute files before the device or interface
uevent is broadcast.
A side effect is that we no longer create the endpoint "pseudo"
devices at the same time as a device or interface is registered -- it
seems like a bad idea to try registering an endpoint before the
registration of its parent is complete. So the routines for creating
and removing endpoint devices have been split out and renamed, and
they are called explicitly when needed. A new bitflag is used for
keeping track of whether or not the interface's endpoint devices have
been created, since (just as with the interface attributes) they vary
with the altsetting and hence can be changed at random times.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch (as1177) modifies the USB core suspend and resume
routines. The resume functions now will take a pm_message_t argument,
so they will know what sort of resume is occurring. The new argument
is also passed to the port suspend/resume and bus suspend/resume
routines (although they don't use it for anything but debugging).
In addition, special pm_message_t values are used for user-initiated,
device-initiated (i.e., remote wakeup), and automatic suspend/resume.
By testing these values, drivers can tell whether or not a particular
suspend was an autosuspend. Unfortunately, they can't do the same for
resumes -- not until the pm_message_t argument is also passed to the
drivers' resume methods. That will require a bigger change.
IMO, the whole Power Management framework should have been set up this
way in the first place.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Impact: cleanup
Found this when I changed args to __module_param_call. We now have
core_param for exactly this, but Greg assures me "nousb" is used as a
module parameter, so we need the #ifdef MODULE.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch (as1160b) adds support routines for asynchronous autosuspend
and autoresume, with accompanying documentation updates. There
already are several potential users of this interface, and others are
likely to arise as autosuspend support becomes more widespread.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch (as1161) changes the interface to
usb_lock_device_for_reset(). The existing interface is apparently not
very clear, judging from the fact that several of its callers don't
use it correctly. The new interface always returns 0 for success and
it always requires the caller to unlock the device afterward.
The new routine will not return immediately if it is called while the
driver's probe method is running. Instead it will wait until the
probe is over and the device has been unlocked. This shouldn't cause
any problems; I don't know of any cases where drivers call
usb_lock_device_for_reset() during probe.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
PM: Simplify the new suspend/hibernation framework for devices
Following the discussion at the Kernel Summit, simplify the new
device PM framework by merging 'struct pm_ops' and
'struct pm_ext_ops' and removing pointers to 'struct pm_ext_ops'
from 'struct platform_driver' and 'struct pci_driver'.
After this change, the suspend/hibernation callbacks will only
reside in 'struct device_driver' as well as at the bus type/
device class/device type level. Accordingly, PCI and platform
device drivers are now expected to put their suspend/hibernation
callbacks into the 'struct device_driver' embedded in
'struct pci_driver' or 'struct platform_driver', respectively.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch (as1129) adds support for the new PM callbacks to usbcore.
The new callbacks merely invoke the same old USB power management
routines as the old ones did.
A minor improvement is that the callbacks are present only in the
"USB-device" device_type structure, rather than in the bus_type
structure. This way they will be invoked only for USB devices, not
for USB interfaces. The core USB PM routines automatically handle
suspending and resuming interfaces along with their devices.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The bus_id field is going away, use the dev_set_name() function
to set it properly.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The bus_id field is going away, use the dev_name() function instead.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch (as1087d) fixes a long-standing problem in usbcore: Device,
interface, and endpoint attributes aren't added until _after_ the
creation uevent has already been broadcast.
Unfortunately there are a few attributes which cannot be created that
early. The "descriptors" attribute is binary and so must be created
separately. The power-management attributes can't be created until
the dev/power/ group exists. And the interface string can vary from
one altsetting to another, so it has to be created dynamically.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Fix docbook problems in USB source files.
These cause the generated docbook to be incorrect.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Over two years ago, the Linux USB developers stated that they believed
there was no way to create a USB kernel driver that was not under the
GPL. This patch moves the USB apis to enforce that decision.
There are no known closed source USB drivers in the wild, so this patch
should cause no problems.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch exports two statistics to userspace:
/sys/bus/usb/device/.../power/connected_duration
/sys/bus/usb/device/.../power/active_duration
connected_duration is the total time (in msec) that the device has
been connected. active_duration is the total time the device has not
been suspended. With these two statistics, tools like PowerTOP can
calculate the percentage time that a device is active, i.e. not
suspended or auto-suspended.
Users can also use the active_duration to check if a device is actually
autosuspended. Currently, they can set power/level to auto and
power/autosuspend to a positive timeout, but there's no way to know from
userspace if a device was actually autosuspended without looking at the
dmesg output. These statistics will be useful in creating an automated
userspace script to test autosuspend for USB devices.
Signed-off-by: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch (as1012b) makes the ksuspend_usbd kernel thread
non-freezable. Since the PM core has been changed to lock all devices
during a system sleep, the thread no longer needs to be frozen. It
won't interfere with a system sleep because before trying to resume a
root hub device, it acquires the device's lock.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch (as1010) was written by both Kay Sievers and me. It solves
the problem of duplicated keys in USB uevent structures by refactoring
the uevent subroutines, taking advantage of the way the hotplug core
calls uevent handlers for the device's bus and for the device's type.
Keys needed for both USB-device and USB-interface events are added in
usb_uevent(), which is the bus handler. Keys appropriate only for
USB-device or USB-interface events are added in usb_dev_uevent() or
usb_if_uevent() respectively, the type handlers.
In addition, unnecessary tests for NULL pointers are removed as are
duplicated debugging log statements.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Not architecture specific code should not #include <asm/scatterlist.h>.
This patch therefore either replaces them with
#include <linux/scatterlist.h> or simply removes them if they were
unused.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
This patch contains the following cleanups that are now possible:
- remove the unused security_operations->inode_xattr_getsuffix
- remove the no longer used security_operations->unregister_security
- remove some no longer required exit code
- remove a bunch of no longer used exports
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
powertop currently tracks interrupts generated by uhci, ehci, and ohci,
but it has no way of telling which USB device to blame USB bus activity on.
This patch exports the number of URBs that are submitted for a given device.
Cat the file 'urbnum' in /sys/bus/usb/devices/.../
Signed-off-by: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch (as989) makes usbcore flush all outstanding URBs for each
device as the device is suspended. This will be true even when
CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND is not enabled.
In addition, an extra can_submit flag is added to the usb_device
structure. That flag will be turned off whenever a suspend request
has been received for the device, even if the device isn't actually
suspended because CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND isn't set.
It's no longer necessary to check for the device state being equal to
USB_STATE_SUSPENDED during URB submission; that check can be replaced
by a check of the can_submit flag. This also permits us to remove
some questionable references to the deprecated power.power_state field.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch (as946) eliminates many of the uses of urb->pipe in
usbcore. Unfortunately there will have to be a significant API
change, affecting all USB drivers, before we can remove it entirely.
This patch contents itself with changing only the interface to
usb_buffer_map_sg() and friends: The pipe argument is replaced with a
direction flag. That can be done easily because those routines get
used in only one place.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch (as944) adds an explicit "enabled" field to the
usb_host_endpoint structure and uses it in place of the current
mechanism. This is merely a time-space tradeoff; it makes checking
whether URBs may be submitted to an endpoint simpler. The existing
mechanism is efficient when converting urb->pipe to an endpoint
pointer, but it's not so efficient when urb->ep is used instead.
As a side effect, the procedure for enabling an endpoint is now a
little more complicated. The ad-hoc inline code in usb.c and hub.c
for enabling ep0 is now replaced with calls to usb_enable_endpoint,
which is no longer static.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch updates some of the documentation about DMA buffer management
for USB, and ways to avoid extra copying. Our understanding of the issues
has improved over time.
- Most drivers should *avoid* the dma-coherent allocators. There are
a few exceptions (like the HID driver).
- Some methods are currently commented out; it seems folk writing
USB drivers aren't doing performance tuning at that level yet.
- Just avoid highmem; there's no good way to pass an "I can do highmem
DMA" capability through a driver stack. This is easy, everything
already avoids highmem. But it'd be nice if x86_32 systems with much
physical memory could use it directly with network adapters and mass
storage devices. (Patch, anyone?)
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
So we can use dev_to_node(&usb_dev->dev) later in kmalloc_node to dma buffer
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@sun.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch (as912) replaces a couple of calls to flush_workqueue()
with cancel_sync_work() and cancel_rearming_delayed_work(). Using a
more directed approach allows us to avoid some nasty deadlocks. The
prime example occurs when a first-level device (the parent is a root
hub) is removed while at the same time the root hub gets a remote
wakeup request. khubd would try to flush the autosuspend workqueue
while holding the root-hub's lock, and the remote-wakeup workqueue
routine would be waiting to lock the root hub.
The patch also reorganizes the power management portion of
usb_disconnect(), separating it out into its own routine. The
autosuspend workqueue entry is cancelled immediately instead of
waiting for the device's release routine. In addition,
synchronization with the autosuspend thread is carried out even for
root hubs (an oversight in the original code).
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch (as881b) makes the ksuspend_usb_wq workqueue freezable. We
don't want a rogue workqueue thread running around, unexpectedly
suspending or resuming USB devices in the middle of a system sleep
transition.
This fixes Bugzilla #8498.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Remove includes of <linux/smp_lock.h> where it is not used/needed.
Suggested by Al Viro.
Builds cleanly on x86_64, i386, alpha, ia64, powerpc, sparc,
sparc64, and arm (all 59 defconfigs).
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
o The "real" usb-devices export now a device node which can
populate /dev/bus/usb.
o The usb_device class is optional now and can be disabled in the
kernel config. Major/minor of the "real" devices and class devices
are the same.
o The environment of the usb-device event contains DEVNUM and BUSNUM to
help udev and get rid of the ugly udev rule we need for the class
devices.
o The usb-devices and usb-interfaces share the same bus, so I used
the new "struct device_type" to let these devices identify
themselves. This also removes the current logic of using a magic
platform-pointer.
The name of the device_type is also added to the environment
which makes it easier to distinguish the different kinds of devices
on the same subsystem.
It looks like this:
add@/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb2/2-1
ACTION=add
DEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb2/2-1
SUBSYSTEM=usb
SEQNUM=1533
MAJOR=189
MINOR=131
DEVTYPE=usb_device
PRODUCT=46d/c03e/2000
TYPE=0/0/0
BUSNUM=002
DEVNUM=004
This udev rule works as a replacement for usb_device class devices:
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ACTION=="add", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", \
NAME="bus/usb/$env{BUSNUM}/$env{DEVNUM}", MODE="0644"
Updated patch, which needs the device_type patches in Greg's tree.
I also got a bugzilla assigned for this. :)
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=250659
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch (as867) adds an entry for the new power/autosuspend
attribute in Documentation/ABI/testing, and it changes the behavior of
the delay value. Now a delay of 0 means to autosuspend as soon as
possible, and negative values will prevent autosuspend.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch (as866) adds new entry points for external USB device
suspend and resume requests, as opposed to internally-generated
autosuspend or autoresume. It also changes the existing
remote-wakeup code paths to use the new routines, since remote wakeup
is not the same as autoresume.
As part of the change, it turns out to be necessary to do remote
wakeup of root hubs from a workqueue. We had been using khubd, but it
does autoresume rather than an external resume. Using the
ksuspend_usb_wq workqueue for this purpose seemed a logical choice.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch (as864) moves the work routine for USB autosuspend from one
source file to another. This permits the removal of one whole global
symbol (!) and should smooth the way for more changes in the future.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch (as859) makes the default USB autosuspend delay a module
parameter of usbcore. By setting the delay value at boot time, users
will be able to prevent the system from autosuspending devices which
for some reason can't handle it.
The patch also stores the autosuspend delay as a per-device value. A
later patch will allow the user to change the value, tailoring the
delay for each individual device. A delay value of 0 will prevent
autosuspend.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch (as844) makes some trivial whitespace fixes to a few files
in usbcore. Oliver did most of the work and Alan added some tidying up.
Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Conflicts:
drivers/infiniband/core/iwcm.c
drivers/net/chelsio/cxgb2.c
drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c
drivers/net/wireless/prism54/islpci_eth.c
drivers/usb/core/hub.h
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c
net/core/netpoll.c
Fix up merge failures with Linus's head and fix new compilation failures.
Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
This patch (as821) fixes a compiler warning when CONFIG_PM isn't on
("usb_autosuspend_work" defined but not used).
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
We have no benefits of having the usb_endpoint_* functions as functions,
but making them inline saves text and data segment sizes:
text data bss dec hex filename
14893634 3108770 1108840 19111244 1239d4c vmlinux.func
14893185 3108566 1108840 19110591 1239abf vmlinux.inline
This is the result of a 2.6.19-rc3 kernel compiled with GCC 4.1.1 without
CONFIG_MODULES, CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE, CONFIG_REGPARM options set.
USB support is fully enabled (while most of the other drivers are not),
and that kernel has most of the USB code ported to use the endpoint
functions.
That happens because a call to those functions are expensive (in terms
of bytes), while the function's size is smaller or have the same 'size' of
the call.
Signed-off-by: Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Many files include the filename at the beginning, serveral used a wrong one.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Zeisberger <Uwe_Zeisberger@digi.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
This patch (as791b) fixes things up to avoid compiler warnings or
errors when CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND or CONFIG_PM isn't set.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch (as787) creates a new workqueue thread to handle delayed
USB autosuspend requests. Previously the code used keventd. However
it turns out that the hub driver's suspend routine calls
flush_scheduled_work(), making it a poor candidate for running in
keventd (the call immediately deadlocks). The solution is to use a
new thread instead of keventd.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch (as739) adds the basic infrastructure for USB autosuspend
and autoresume. The main features are:
PM usage counters added to struct usb_device and struct
usb_interface, indicating whether it's okay to autosuspend
them or they are currently in use.
Flag added to usb_device indicating whether the current
suspend/resume operation originated from outside or as an
autosuspend/autoresume.
Flag added to usb_driver indicating whether the driver
supports autosuspend. If not, no device bound to the driver
will be autosuspended.
Mutex added to usb_device for protecting PM operations.
Unlike the device semaphore, the locking rule for the pm_mutex
is that you must acquire the locks going _up_ the device tree.
New routines handling autosuspend/autoresume requests for
interfaces and devices.
Suspend and resume requests are propagated up the device tree
(but not outside the USB subsystem).
work_struct added to usb_device, for carrying out delayed
autosuspend requests.
Autoresume added (and autosuspend prevented) during probe and
disconnect.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
As part of the ongoing program to flatten out the HCD bus-glue layer,
this patch (as771b) eliminates the hcpriv, release, and kref fields
from struct usb_bus. hcpriv and release were not being used for
anything worthwhile, and kref has been moved into the enclosing
usb_hcd structure.
Along with those changes, the patch gets rid of usb_bus_get and
usb_bus_put, replacing them with usb_get_hcd and usb_put_hcd.
The one interesting aspect is that the dev_set_drvdata call was
removed from usb_put_hcd, where it clearly doesn't belong. This means
the driver private data won't get reset to NULL. It shouldn't cause
any problems, since the private data is undefined when no driver is
bound.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
All of the currently-supported USB host controller drivers use the HCD
bus-glue framework. As part of the program for flattening out the glue
layer, this patch (as769) removes the usb_operations structure. All
function calls now go directly to the HCD routines (slightly renamed
to remain within the "usb_" namespace).
The patch also removes usb_alloc_bus(), because it's not useful in the
HCD framework and it wasn't referenced anywhere.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch marks some USB core's functions parameters as const. This
improves the design (we're saying to the caller that its parameter is
not going to be modified) and may help in compiler's optimisation work.
Signed-off-by: Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
These functions makes USB driver's code simpler when dealing with endpoints
by avoiding them from accessing the endpoint's descriptor structure directly
when they only need to know the endpoint's transfer type and/or
direction.
Please, read each functions' documentation in order to know how to use
them.
Signed-off-by: Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch (as714b) makes usb_generic into a usb_device_driver capable
of being probed and unbound, just like other drivers. A fair amount of
the work that used to get done during discovery or removal of a USB
device have been moved to the probe and disconnect methods of
usb_generic: creating the sysfs attributes and selecting an initial
configuration. However the normal behavior should continue to be the
same as before.
We will now have the possibility of creating other USB device drivers,
They will assist with exporting devices to remote systems
(USB-over-TCPIP) or to paravirtual guest operating systems.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
