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Pull tty/serial updates from Greg KH:
"Here's the tty/serial patchset for 4.10-rc1.
It's been a quiet kernel cycle for this subsystem, just a small number
of changes. A few new serial drivers, and some cleanups to the old
vgacon logic, and other minor serial driver changes as well.
All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
issues"
* tag 'tty-4.10-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (54 commits)
serial: 8250_mid fix calltrace when hotplug 8250 serial controller
console: Move userspace I/O out of console_lock to fix lockdep warning
tty: nozomi: avoid sprintf buffer overflow
serial: 8250_pci: Detach low-level driver during PCI error recovery
serial: core: don't check port twice in a row
mxs-auart: count FIFO overrun errors
serial: 8250_dw: Add support for IrDA SIR mode
serial: 8250: Expose set_ldisc function
serial: 8250: Add IrDA to UART capabilities
serial: 8250_dma: power off device after TX is done
serial: 8250_port: export serial8250_rpm_{get|put}_tx()
serial: sunsu: Free memory when probe fails
serial: sunhv: Free memory when remove() is called
vt: fix Scroll Lock LED trigger name
tty: typo in comments in drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c
tty: amba-pl011: Add earlycon support for SBSA UART
tty: nozomi: use permission-specific DEVICE_ATTR variants
tty: serial: Make the STM32 serial port depend on it's arch
serial: ifx6x60: Free memory when probe fails
serial: ioc4_serial: Free memory when kzalloc fails during probe
...
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.