linux/Documentation/driver-api/usb/anchors.rst
Dr. David Alan Gilbert 47c83f95f3 usb: core: Remove unused usb_unlink_anchored_urbs
usb_unlink_anchored_urbs() has been unused since it's last use was
removed in 2009 by
commit 9b9c5aaeed ("ar9170: xmit code revamp")

Remove it.

Signed-off-by: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <linux@treblig.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250608235617.200731-1-linux@treblig.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2025-06-19 12:27:02 +02:00

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USB Anchors
~~~~~~~~~~~
What is anchor?
===============
A USB driver needs to support some callbacks requiring
a driver to cease all IO to an interface. To do so, a
driver has to keep track of the URBs it has submitted
to know they've all completed or to call usb_kill_urb
for them. The anchor is a data structure takes care of
keeping track of URBs and provides methods to deal with
multiple URBs.
Allocation and Initialisation
=============================
There's no API to allocate an anchor. It is simply declared
as struct usb_anchor. :c:func:`init_usb_anchor` must be called to
initialise the data structure.
Deallocation
============
Once it has no more URBs associated with it, the anchor can be
freed with normal memory management operations.
Association and disassociation of URBs with anchors
===================================================
An association of URBs to an anchor is made by an explicit
call to :c:func:`usb_anchor_urb`. The association is maintained until
an URB is finished by (successful) completion. Thus disassociation
is automatic. A function is provided to forcibly finish (kill)
all URBs associated with an anchor.
Furthermore, disassociation can be made with :c:func:`usb_unanchor_urb`
Operations on multitudes of URBs
================================
:c:func:`usb_kill_anchored_urbs`
--------------------------------
This function kills all URBs associated with an anchor. The URBs
are called in the reverse temporal order they were submitted.
This way no data can be reordered.
:c:func:`usb_scuttle_anchored_urbs`
-----------------------------------
All URBs of an anchor are unanchored en masse.
:c:func:`usb_wait_anchor_empty_timeout`
---------------------------------------
This function waits for all URBs associated with an anchor to finish
or a timeout, whichever comes first. Its return value will tell you
whether the timeout was reached.
:c:func:`usb_anchor_empty`
--------------------------
Returns true if no URBs are associated with an anchor. Locking
is the caller's responsibility.
:c:func:`usb_get_from_anchor`
-----------------------------
Returns the oldest anchored URB of an anchor. The URB is unanchored
and returned with a reference. As you may mix URBs to several
destinations in one anchor you have no guarantee the chronologically
first submitted URB is returned.