linux/drivers/usb
David Brownell caa9ef672a USB: ehci tolerates some buggy devices
This teaches EHCI how to to work around bugs in certain high speed
devices, by accomodating "bulk" packets that exceed the 512 byte
constant value required by the USB 2.0 specification.  (Have a
look at section 5.8.3, paragraphs 1 and 3.)

It also makes the descriptor parsing code warn when it encounters
such bugs.  (We've had reports of maybe two or three such devices,
all pretty recent.)

Such devices are nonconformant.  The proper fix is have the vendors
of those devices do the simple, obvious, and correct thing ... which
will let them be used with USB hosts that don't have workarounds for
this particular vendor bug.  But unless/until they do, we can at least
have one of the high speed HCDs work with such buggy devices.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-04-24 21:16:35 -07:00
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atm USB: usbatm: convert heavy init dances to kthread API 2008-04-24 21:16:34 -07:00
class USB: fix usb open suspend race in cdc-acm 2008-02-21 15:38:49 -08:00
core USB: ehci tolerates some buggy devices 2008-04-24 21:16:35 -07:00
gadget Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hskinnemoen/usba-2.6.26 into base 2008-04-19 20:38:41 -04:00
host USB: ehci tolerates some buggy devices 2008-04-24 21:16:35 -07:00
image USB: microtek: remove unused semaphore 2008-04-24 21:16:33 -07:00
misc drivers: Remove unnecessary inclusions of asm/semaphore.h 2008-04-18 22:16:32 -04:00
mon USB: Fix memory leak in mon_stat_release 2008-04-24 21:16:32 -07:00
serial USB: Add HP hs2300 Broadband Wireless Module to sierra.c 2008-04-24 21:16:32 -07:00
storage USB: make USB_STORAGE_ONETOUCH available with PM 2008-04-24 21:16:34 -07:00
Kconfig USB: add support for SuperH OHCI 2008-02-01 14:35:03 -08:00
Makefile USB: always visit drivers/usb/misc/ 2007-10-12 14:55:26 -07:00
README USB: fix directory references in usb/README 2007-11-28 13:58:34 -08:00
usb-skeleton.c USB: usb-skeleton leaking locks on open 2007-10-12 14:55:26 -07:00

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.