--- zzzz-none-000/linux-3.10.107/Documentation/usb/hotplug.txt 2017-06-27 09:49:32.000000000 +0000 +++ scorpion-7490-727/linux-3.10.107/Documentation/usb/hotplug.txt 2021-02-04 17:41:59.000000000 +0000 @@ -33,9 +33,9 @@ KERNEL HOTPLUG HELPER (/sbin/hotplug) -When you compile with CONFIG_HOTPLUG, you get a new kernel parameter: -/proc/sys/kernel/hotplug, which normally holds the pathname "/sbin/hotplug". -That parameter names a program which the kernel may invoke at various times. +There is a kernel parameter: /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug, which normally +holds the pathname "/sbin/hotplug". That parameter names a program +which the kernel may invoke at various times. The /sbin/hotplug program can be invoked by any subsystem as part of its reaction to a configuration change, from a thread in that subsystem. @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ The USB subsystem currently invokes /sbin/hotplug when USB devices are added or removed from system. The invocation is done by the kernel -hub daemon thread [khubd], or else as part of root hub initialization +hub workqueue [hub_wq], or else as part of root hub initialization (done by init, modprobe, kapmd, etc). Its single command line parameter is the string "usb", and it passes these environment variables: @@ -105,13 +105,13 @@ A short example, for a driver that supports several specific USB devices and their quirks, might have a MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE like this: - static const struct usb_device_id mydriver_id_table = { + static const struct usb_device_id mydriver_id_table[] = { { USB_DEVICE (0x9999, 0xaaaa), driver_info: QUIRK_X }, { USB_DEVICE (0xbbbb, 0x8888), driver_info: QUIRK_Y|QUIRK_Z }, ... { } /* end with an all-zeroes entry */ - } - MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE (usb, mydriver_id_table); + }; + MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(usb, mydriver_id_table); Most USB device drivers should pass these tables to the USB subsystem as well as to the module management subsystem. Not all, though: some driver @@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ if exposing any operations through usbdevfs: .ioctl = my_ioctl, */ - } + }; When the USB subsystem knows about a driver's device ID table, it's used when choosing drivers to probe(). The thread doing new device processing checks