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authorDavid Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>2008-06-19 17:51:44 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2008-07-21 15:15:59 -0700
commitc1dca562be8ada614ef193aa246c6f8705bcd6b9 (patch)
treed1a1946657e1f14756349af5f343ed6366b7c37c /Documentation/usb
parentbb24280ffce6a8bc6b03d29a43ec16ac14e9ec85 (diff)
usb gadget: split out serial core
This abstracts the "gadget serial" driver TTY glue into a separate component, cleaning it up and disentangling it from connection state. It also changed some behaviors for the better: - Stops using "experimental" major #127, and switches over to having the TTY layer allocate the dev_t numbers. - Provides /sys/class/tty/ttyGS* nodes, thus mdev/udev support. (Note "mdev" hotplug bug in Busybox v1.7.2: /dev/ttyGS0 will be a *block* device without CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2.) - The tty nodes no longer reject opens when there's no host. Now they can support normal getty configs in /etc/inttab... - Now implements RX throttling. When the line discipline says it doesn't want any more data, only packets in flight will be delivered (currently, max 1K/8K at full/high speeds) until it unthrottles the data. - Supports low_latency. This is a good policy for all USB serial adapters, since it eliminates scheduler overhead on RX paths. This also includes much cleanup including better comments, fixing memory leaks and other bugs (including some locking fixes), messaging cleanup, and an interface audit and tightening. This added up to a significant object code shrinkage, on the order of 20% (!) depending on CPU and compiler. A separate patch actually kicks in this new code, using the functions declared in this new header, and removes the previous glue. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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