Merge tag 'usb-6.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb

Pull USB / Thunderbolt updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the big set of USB and Thunderbolt changes for 6.16-rc1.

Merge tag 'usb-6.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb

Pull USB / Thunderbolt updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the big set of USB and Thunderbolt changes for 6.16-rc1.
Included in here are the following:

- USB offload support for audio devices.

I think this takes the record for the most number of patch series
(30+) over the longest period of time (2+ years) to get merged
properly.

Many props go to Wesley Cheng for seeing this effort through, they
took a major out-of-tree hacked-up-monstrosity that was created by
multiple vendors for their specific devices, got it all merged into
a semi-coherent set of changes, and got all of the different major
subsystems to agree on how this should be implemented both with
changes to their code as well as userspace apis, AND wrangled the
hardware companies into agreeing to go forward with this, despite
making them all redo work they had already done in their private
device trees.

This feature offers major power savings on embedded devices where a
USB audio stream can continue to flow while the rest of the system
is sleeping, something that devices running on battery power really
care about. There are still some more small tweaks left to be done
here, and those patches are still out for review and arguing among
the different hardware companies, but this is a major step forward
and a great example of how to do upstream development well.

- small number of thunderbolt fixes and updates, things seem to be
slowing down here (famous last words...)

- xhci refactors and reworking to try to handle some rough corner
cases in some hardware implementations where things don't always
work properly

- typec driver updates

- USB3 power management reworking and updates

- Removal of some old and orphaned UDC gadget drivers that had not
been used in a very long time, dropping over 11 thousand lines from
the tree, always a nice thing, making up for the 12k lines added
for the USB offload feature.

- lots of little updates and fixes in different drivers

All of these have been in linux-next for over 2 weeks, the USB offload
logic has been in there for 8 weeks now, with no reported issues"

* tag 'usb-6.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb: (172 commits)
ALSA: usb-audio: qcom: fix USB_XHCI dependency
ASoC: qdsp6: fix compile-testing without CONFIG_OF
usb: misc: onboard_usb_dev: fix build warning for CONFIG_USB_ONBOARD_DEV_USB5744=n
usb: typec: tipd: fix typo in TPS_STATUS_HIGH_VOLAGE_WARNING macro
USB: typec: fix const issue in typec_match()
USB: gadget: udc: fix const issue in gadget_match_driver()
USB: gadget: fix up const issue with struct usb_function_instance
USB: serial: pl2303: add new chip PL2303GC-Q20 and PL2303GT-2AB
USB: serial: bus: fix const issue in usb_serial_device_match()
usb: usbtmc: Fix timeout value in get_stb
usb: usbtmc: Fix read_stb function and get_stb ioctl
ALSA: qc_audio_offload: try to reduce address space confusion
ALSA: qc_audio_offload: avoid leaking xfer_buf allocation
ALSA: qc_audio_offload: rename dma/iova/va/cpu/phys variables
ALSA: usb-audio: qcom: Fix an error handling path in qc_usb_audio_probe()
usb: misc: onboard_usb_dev: Fix usb5744 initialization sequence
dt-bindings: usb: ti,usb8041: Add binding for TI USB8044 hub controller
usb: misc: onboard_usb_dev: Add support for TI TUSB8044 hub
usb: gadget: lpc32xx_udc: Use USB API functions rather than constants
usb: gadget: epautoconf: Use USB API functions rather than constants
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usb: dwc3: qcom: Snapshot driver for backwards compatibilty

In order to more tightly integrate the Qualcomm glue driver with the
dwc3 core the driver is redesigned to avoid splitting the implementat

usb: dwc3: qcom: Snapshot driver for backwards compatibilty

In order to more tightly integrate the Qualcomm glue driver with the
dwc3 core the driver is redesigned to avoid splitting the implementation
using the driver model. But due to the strong coupling to the Devicetree
binding needs to be updated as well.

Various ways to provide backwards compatibility with existing Devicetree
blobs has been explored, but migrating the Devicetree information
between the old and the new binding is non-trivial.

For the vast majority of boards out there, the kernel and Devicetree are
generated and handled together, which in practice means that backwards
compatibility needs to be managed across about 1 kernel release.

For some though, such as the various Snapdragon laptops, the Devicetree
blobs live a life separate of the kernel. In each one of these, with the
continued extension of new features, it's recommended that users would
upgrade their Devicetree somewhat frequently.

With this in mind, simply carrying a snapshot/copy of the current driver
is simpler than creating and maintaining the migration code.

The driver is kept under the same Kconfig option, to ensure that Linux
distributions doesn't drop USB support on these platforms.

The driver, which is going to be refactored to handle the newly
introduced qcom,snps-dwc3 compatible, is updated to temporarily not
match against any compatible.

This driver should be removed after the next LTS release.

Acked-by: Thinh Nguyen <Thinh.Nguyen@synopsys.com>
Tested-by: Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@linaro.org> # on SM8650-QRD
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@oss.qualcomm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250414-dwc3-refactor-v7-1-f015b358722d@oss.qualcomm.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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