usb/hotplug.txt: convert to ReST and add to driver-api book

This document describe some USB core features. Add it to the
driver-api book.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

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-LINUX HOTPLUGGING
-
-In hotpluggable busses like USB (and Cardbus PCI), end-users plug devices
-into the bus with power on.  In most cases, users expect the devices to become
-immediately usable.  That means the system must do many things, including:
-
-    - Find a driver that can handle the device.  That may involve
-      loading a kernel module; newer drivers can use module-init-tools
-      to publish their device (and class) support to user utilities.
-
-    - Bind a driver to that device.  Bus frameworks do that using a
-      device driver's probe() routine.
-
-    - Tell other subsystems to configure the new device.  Print
-      queues may need to be enabled, networks brought up, disk
-      partitions mounted, and so on.  In some cases these will
-      be driver-specific actions.
-
-This involves a mix of kernel mode and user mode actions.  Making devices
-be immediately usable means that any user mode actions can't wait for an
-administrator to do them:  the kernel must trigger them, either passively
-(triggering some monitoring daemon to invoke a helper program) or
-actively (calling such a user mode helper program directly).
-
-Those triggered actions must support a system's administrative policies;
-such programs are called "policy agents" here.  Typically they involve
-shell scripts that dispatch to more familiar administration tools.
-
-Because some of those actions rely on information about drivers (metadata)
-that is currently available only when the drivers are dynamically linked,
-you get the best hotplugging when you configure a highly modular system.
-
-
-KERNEL HOTPLUG HELPER (/sbin/hotplug)
-
-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.
-Only one parameter is required: the name of a subsystem being notified of
-some kernel event.  That name is used as the first key for further event
-dispatch; any other argument and environment parameters are specified by
-the subsystem making that invocation.
-
-Hotplug software and other resources is available at:
-
-	http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net
-
-Mailing list information is also available at that site.
-
-
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-
-USB POLICY AGENT
-
-The USB subsystem currently invokes /sbin/hotplug when USB devices
-are added or removed from system.  The invocation is done by the kernel
-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:
-
-    ACTION ... "add", "remove"
-    PRODUCT ... USB vendor, product, and version codes (hex)
-    TYPE ... device class codes (decimal)
-    INTERFACE ... interface 0 class codes (decimal)
-
-If "usbdevfs" is configured, DEVICE and DEVFS are also passed.  DEVICE is
-the pathname of the device, and is useful for devices with multiple and/or
-alternate interfaces that complicate driver selection.  By design, USB
-hotplugging is independent of "usbdevfs":  you can do most essential parts
-of USB device setup without using that filesystem, and without running a
-user mode daemon to detect changes in system configuration.
-
-Currently available policy agent implementations can load drivers for
-modules, and can invoke driver-specific setup scripts.  The newest ones
-leverage USB module-init-tools support.  Later agents might unload drivers.
-
-
-USB MODUTILS SUPPORT
-
-Current versions of module-init-tools will create a "modules.usbmap" file
-which contains the entries from each driver's MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE.  Such
-files can be used by various user mode policy agents to make sure all the
-right driver modules get loaded, either at boot time or later.
-
-See <linux/usb.h> for full information about such table entries; or look
-at existing drivers.  Each table entry describes one or more criteria to
-be used when matching a driver to a device or class of devices.  The
-specific criteria are identified by bits set in "match_flags", paired
-with field values.  You can construct the criteria directly, or with
-macros such as these, and use driver_info to store more information.
-
-    USB_DEVICE (vendorId, productId)
-	... matching devices with specified vendor and product ids
-    USB_DEVICE_VER (vendorId, productId, lo, hi)
-	... like USB_DEVICE with lo <= productversion <= hi
-    USB_INTERFACE_INFO (class, subclass, protocol)
-	... matching specified interface class info
-    USB_DEVICE_INFO (class, subclass, protocol)
-	... matching specified device class info
-
-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[] = {
-	{ 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);
-
-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
-frameworks connect using interfaces layered over USB, and so they won't
-need such a "struct usb_driver".
-
-Drivers that connect directly to the USB subsystem should be declared
-something like this:
-
-    static struct usb_driver mydriver = {
-	.name		= "mydriver",
-	.id_table	= mydriver_id_table,
-	.probe		= my_probe,
-	.disconnect	= my_disconnect,
-
-	/*
-	if using the usb chardev framework:
-	    .minor		= MY_USB_MINOR_START,
-	    .fops		= my_file_ops,
-	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
-drivers' device ID entries from the MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE against interface and
-device descriptors for the device.  It will only call probe() if there is a
-match, and the third argument to probe() will be the entry that matched.
-
-If you don't provide an id_table for your driver, then your driver may get
-probed for each new device; the third parameter to probe() will be null.
-
-