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-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-usb13
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-uwb_rc-wusbhc13
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/xilinx.txt11
-rw-r--r--Documentation/usb/power-management.txt69
5 files changed, 72 insertions, 36 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-usb b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-usb
index 7772928..deb6b48 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-usb
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-usb
@@ -144,3 +144,16 @@ Description:
Write a 1 to force the device to disconnect
(equivalent to unplugging a wired USB device).
+
+What: /sys/bus/usb/drivers/.../remove_id
+Date: November 2009
+Contact: CHENG Renquan <rqcheng@smu.edu.sg>
+Description:
+ Writing a device ID to this file will remove an ID
+ that was dynamically added via the new_id sysfs entry.
+ The format for the device ID is:
+ idVendor idProduct. After successfully
+ removing an ID, the driver will no longer support the
+ device. This is useful to ensure auto probing won't
+ match the driver to the device. For example:
+ # echo "046d c315" > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/foo/remove_id
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-uwb_rc-wusbhc b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-uwb_rc-wusbhc
index 4e8106f..25b1e75 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-uwb_rc-wusbhc
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-uwb_rc-wusbhc
@@ -23,3 +23,16 @@ Description:
Since this relates to security (specifically, the
lifetime of PTKs and GTKs) it should not be changed
from the default.
+
+What: /sys/class/uwb_rc/uwbN/wusbhc/wusb_phy_rate
+Date: August 2009
+KernelVersion: 2.6.32
+Contact: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@csr.com>
+Description:
+ The maximum PHY rate to use for all connected devices.
+ This is only of limited use for testing and
+ development as the hardware's automatic rate
+ adaptation is better then this simple control.
+
+ Refer to [ECMA-368] section 10.3.1.1 for the value to
+ use.
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 777dc8a..3f886e2 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2663,6 +2663,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
of sense data);
+ b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
+ bytes of sense data);
c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
device capacity by one sector);
h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/xilinx.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/xilinx.txt
index 80339fe..ea68046 100644
--- a/Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/xilinx.txt
+++ b/Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/xilinx.txt
@@ -292,4 +292,15 @@
- reg-offset : A value of 3 is required
- reg-shift : A value of 2 is required
+ vii) Xilinx USB Host controller
+
+ The Xilinx USB host controller is EHCI compatible but with a different
+ base address for the EHCI registers, and it is always a big-endian
+ USB Host controller. The hardware can be configured as high speed only,
+ or high speed/full speed hybrid.
+
+ Required properties:
+ - xlnx,support-usb-fs: A value 0 means the core is built as high speed
+ only. A value 1 means the core also supports
+ full speed devices.
diff --git a/Documentation/usb/power-management.txt b/Documentation/usb/power-management.txt
index ad64261..c7c1dc2 100644
--- a/Documentation/usb/power-management.txt
+++ b/Documentation/usb/power-management.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
- October 5, 2007
+ November 10, 2009
@@ -123,9 +123,9 @@ relevant attribute files are: wakeup, level, and autosuspend.
power/level
- This file contains one of three words: "on", "auto",
- or "suspend". You can write those words to the file
- to change the device's setting.
+ This file contains one of two words: "on" or "auto".
+ You can write those words to the file to change the
+ device's setting.
"on" means that the device should be resumed and
autosuspend is not allowed. (Of course, system
@@ -134,10 +134,10 @@ relevant attribute files are: wakeup, level, and autosuspend.
"auto" is the normal state in which the kernel is
allowed to autosuspend and autoresume the device.
- "suspend" means that the device should remain
- suspended, and autoresume is not allowed. (But remote
- wakeup may still be allowed, since it is controlled
- separately by the power/wakeup attribute.)
+ (In kernels up to 2.6.32, you could also specify
+ "suspend", meaning that the device should remain
+ suspended and autoresume was not allowed. This
+ setting is no longer supported.)
power/autosuspend
@@ -313,13 +313,14 @@ three of the methods listed above. In addition, a driver indicates
that it supports autosuspend by setting the .supports_autosuspend flag
in its usb_driver structure. It is then responsible for informing the
USB core whenever one of its interfaces becomes busy or idle. The
-driver does so by calling these five functions:
+driver does so by calling these six functions:
int usb_autopm_get_interface(struct usb_interface *intf);
void usb_autopm_put_interface(struct usb_interface *intf);
- int usb_autopm_set_interface(struct usb_interface *intf);
int usb_autopm_get_interface_async(struct usb_interface *intf);
void usb_autopm_put_interface_async(struct usb_interface *intf);
+ void usb_autopm_get_interface_no_resume(struct usb_interface *intf);
+ void usb_autopm_put_interface_no_suspend(struct usb_interface *intf);
The functions work by maintaining a counter in the usb_interface
structure. When intf->pm_usage_count is > 0 then the interface is
@@ -331,11 +332,13 @@ considered to be idle, and the kernel may autosuspend the device.
associated with the device itself rather than any of its interfaces.
This field is used only by the USB core.)
-The driver owns intf->pm_usage_count; it can modify the value however
-and whenever it likes. A nice aspect of the non-async usb_autopm_*
-routines is that the changes they make are protected by the usb_device
-structure's PM mutex (udev->pm_mutex); however drivers may change
-pm_usage_count without holding the mutex. Drivers using the async
+Drivers must not modify intf->pm_usage_count directly; its value
+should be changed only be using the functions listed above. Drivers
+are responsible for insuring that the overall change to pm_usage_count
+during their lifetime balances out to 0 (it may be necessary for the
+disconnect method to call usb_autopm_put_interface() one or more times
+to fulfill this requirement). The first two routines use the PM mutex
+in struct usb_device for mutual exclusion; drivers using the async
routines are responsible for their own synchronization and mutual
exclusion.
@@ -347,11 +350,6 @@ exclusion.
attempts an autosuspend if the new value is <= 0 and the
device isn't suspended.
- usb_autopm_set_interface() leaves pm_usage_count alone.
- It attempts an autoresume if the value is > 0 and the device
- is suspended, and it attempts an autosuspend if the value is
- <= 0 and the device isn't suspended.
-
usb_autopm_get_interface_async() and
usb_autopm_put_interface_async() do almost the same things as
their non-async counterparts. The differences are: they do
@@ -360,13 +358,11 @@ exclusion.
such as an URB's completion handler, but when they return the
device will not generally not yet be in the desired state.
-There also are a couple of utility routines drivers can use:
-
- usb_autopm_enable() sets pm_usage_cnt to 0 and then calls
- usb_autopm_set_interface(), which will attempt an autosuspend.
-
- usb_autopm_disable() sets pm_usage_cnt to 1 and then calls
- usb_autopm_set_interface(), which will attempt an autoresume.
+ usb_autopm_get_interface_no_resume() and
+ usb_autopm_put_interface_no_suspend() merely increment or
+ decrement the pm_usage_count value; they do not attempt to
+ carry out an autoresume or an autosuspend. Hence they can be
+ called in an atomic context.
The conventional usage pattern is that a driver calls
usb_autopm_get_interface() in its open routine and
@@ -400,11 +396,11 @@ though, setting this flag won't cause the kernel to autoresume it.
Normally a driver would set this flag in its probe method, at which
time the device is guaranteed not to be autosuspended.)
-The usb_autopm_* routines have to run in a sleepable process context;
-they must not be called from an interrupt handler or while holding a
-spinlock. In fact, the entire autosuspend mechanism is not well geared
-toward interrupt-driven operation. However there is one thing a
-driver can do in an interrupt handler:
+The synchronous usb_autopm_* routines have to run in a sleepable
+process context; they must not be called from an interrupt handler or
+while holding a spinlock. In fact, the entire autosuspend mechanism
+is not well geared toward interrupt-driven operation. However there
+is one thing a driver can do in an interrupt handler:
usb_mark_last_busy(struct usb_device *udev);
@@ -423,15 +419,16 @@ an URB had completed too recently.
External suspend calls should never be allowed to fail in this way,
only autosuspend calls. The driver can tell them apart by checking
-udev->auto_pm; this flag will be set to 1 for internal PM events
-(autosuspend or autoresume) and 0 for external PM events.
+the PM_EVENT_AUTO bit in the message.event argument to the suspend
+method; this bit will be set for internal PM events (autosuspend) and
+clear for external PM events.
Many of the ingredients in the autosuspend framework are oriented
towards interfaces: The usb_interface structure contains the
pm_usage_cnt field, and the usb_autopm_* routines take an interface
pointer as their argument. But somewhat confusingly, a few of the
-pieces (usb_mark_last_busy() and udev->auto_pm) use the usb_device
-structure instead. Drivers need to keep this straight; they can call
+pieces (i.e., usb_mark_last_busy()) use the usb_device structure
+instead. Drivers need to keep this straight; they can call
interface_to_usbdev() to find the device structure for a given
interface.