This patch (as554) makes the hub driver disconnect any child USB devices
when it is unbound from a hub.  Normally this will never happen, but
there are a few oddball ways to unbind the hub driver while leaving the
children intact.  For example, the new "unbind" sysfs attribute can be
used for this purpose.

Given that unbinding hubs with children is now safe, the patch also
removes the code that prevented people from doing so using usbfs.
Signed-off-by: NAlan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

This patch (as551) fixes another little problem recently added to the
USB core.  Someone didn't fix the type of the first argument to
unregister_chrdev_region.
Signed-off-by: NAlan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

This patch introduces a /sys/class/usb_device/ class
where every connected usb-device will show up:

  tree /sys/class/usb_device/
  /sys/class/usb_device/
  |-- usb1.1
  |   |-- dev
  |   `-- device -> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb1
  |-- usb2.1
  |   |-- dev
  |   `-- device -> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb2
  ...

The presence of the "dev" file lets udev create real device nodes.
  kay@pim:~/src/linux-2.6> tree /dev/bus/usb/
  /dev/bus/usb/
  |-- 1
  |   `-- 1
  |-- 2
  |   `-- 1
  ...

udev rule:
  SUBSYSTEM="usb_device", PROGRAM="/sbin/usb_device %k", NAME="%c"
  (echo $1 | /bin/sed 's/usb\([0-9]*\)\.\([0-9]*\)/bus\/usb\/\1\/\2/')

This makes libusb pick up the real nodes instead of the mounted usbfs:
  export USB_DEVFS_PATH=/dev/bus/usb

Background:
  All this makes it possible to manage usb devices with udev instead of
  the devfs solution. We are currently working on a pam_console/resmgr
  replacement driven by udev and a pam-helper. It applies ACL's to device
  nodes, which is required for modern desktop functionalty like
  "Fast User Switching" or multiple local login support.

New patch with its own major. I've succesfully disabled usbfs and use real
nodes only on my box. With: "export USB_DEVFS_PATH=/dev/bus/usb" libusb picks
up the udev managed nodes instead of reading usbfs files.

This makes udev to provide symlinks for libusb to pick up:
  SUBSYSTEM="usb_device", PROGRAM="/sbin/usbdevice %k", SYMLINK="%c"

/sbin/usbdevice:
  #!/bin/sh
  echo $1 | /bin/sed 's/usbdev\([0-9]*\)\.\([0-9]*\)/bus\/usb\/\1\/\2/'
Signed-off-by: NKay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

This patch fixes an information leak in the usbfs snoop facility:
uninitialized data from __get_free_page can be returned to userspace and
written to the system log.  It also improves the snoop output by printing
the wLength value.
Signed-off-by: NAlan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

This patch turns a user mode driver error into a hard error, and updates
the relevant diagnostic slightly to help troubleshooting.  gphoto was
known to have this problem, hopefully it is now fixed (they have had
plenty of warning...)

This had been left as a soft error to give various user mode drivers a
change to be properly fixed, with the statement that starting in about
2.6.10 it would be changed.  It had been mostly safe as a soft error ...
but that can not be guaranteed.  Now that a year has passed, it's time to
really insist that the user mode drivers finally fix their relevant bugs.
Signed-off-by: NDavid Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Checking for NULL before calling kfree() is redundant. This patch removes
these redundant checks and also makes a few tiny whitespace changes.
Signed-off-by: NJesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

I am sorry that the last patch about 32 bit compat ioctl on
64 bit kernel actually breaks the usbdevfs. That is on the current
BK tree. I am retarded. 

Here is the patch to fix it. Tested with USB hard disk and webcam
in both 32bit compatible mode and native 64bit mode.

Again, sorry about that.


From: Christopher Li <chrisl@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!