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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
2<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd" []>
4
5<book id="LinuxDriversAPI">
6 <bookinfo>
7 <title>Linux Device Drivers</title>
8
9 <legalnotice>
10 <para>
11 This documentation is free software; you can redistribute
12 it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
13 License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
14 version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
15 version.
16 </para>
17
18 <para>
19 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be
20 useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
21 warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
22 See the GNU General Public License for more details.
23 </para>
24
25 <para>
26 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
27 License along with this program; if not, write to the Free
28 Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
29 MA 02111-1307 USA
30 </para>
31
32 <para>
33 For more details see the file COPYING in the source
34 distribution of Linux.
35 </para>
36 </legalnotice>
37 </bookinfo>
38
39<toc></toc>
40
41 <chapter id="Basics">
42 <title>Driver Basics</title>
43 <sect1><title>Driver Entry and Exit points</title>
44!Iinclude/linux/init.h
45 </sect1>
46
47 <sect1><title>Atomic and pointer manipulation</title>
88b68033 48!Iarch/x86/include/asm/atomic.h
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49 </sect1>
50
51 <sect1><title>Delaying, scheduling, and timer routines</title>
52!Iinclude/linux/sched.h
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53!Ekernel/sched/core.c
54!Ikernel/sched/cpupri.c
55!Ikernel/sched/fair.c
ee2f154a 56!Iinclude/linux/completion.h
be11e6d8 57!Ekernel/time/timer.c
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58 </sect1>
59 <sect1><title>Wait queues and Wake events</title>
60!Iinclude/linux/wait.h
96d5d9d9 61!Ekernel/sched/wait.c
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62 </sect1>
63 <sect1><title>High-resolution timers</title>
64!Iinclude/linux/ktime.h
65!Iinclude/linux/hrtimer.h
be11e6d8 66!Ekernel/time/hrtimer.c
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67 </sect1>
68 <sect1><title>Workqueues and Kevents</title>
69!Ekernel/workqueue.c
70 </sect1>
71 <sect1><title>Internal Functions</title>
72!Ikernel/exit.c
73!Ikernel/signal.c
74!Iinclude/linux/kthread.h
75!Ekernel/kthread.c
76 </sect1>
77
78 <sect1><title>Kernel objects manipulation</title>
79<!--
80X!Iinclude/linux/kobject.h
81-->
82!Elib/kobject.c
83 </sect1>
84
85 <sect1><title>Kernel utility functions</title>
86!Iinclude/linux/kernel.h
b9ee979e 87!Ekernel/printk/printk.c
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88!Ekernel/panic.c
89!Ekernel/sys.c
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90!Ekernel/rcu/srcu.c
91!Ekernel/rcu/tree.c
92!Ekernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
93!Ekernel/rcu/update.c
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94 </sect1>
95
96 <sect1><title>Device Resource Management</title>
97!Edrivers/base/devres.c
98 </sect1>
99
100 </chapter>
101
102 <chapter id="devdrivers">
103 <title>Device drivers infrastructure</title>
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104 <sect1><title>The Basic Device Driver-Model Structures </title>
105!Iinclude/linux/device.h
106 </sect1>
f7f84f38 107 <sect1><title>Device Drivers Base</title>
13405059 108!Idrivers/base/init.c
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109!Edrivers/base/driver.c
110!Edrivers/base/core.c
13405059 111!Edrivers/base/syscore.c
f7f84f38 112!Edrivers/base/class.c
13405059 113!Idrivers/base/node.c
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114!Edrivers/base/firmware_class.c
115!Edrivers/base/transport_class.c
116<!-- Cannot be included, because
117 attribute_container_add_class_device_adapter
118 and attribute_container_classdev_to_container
119 exceed allowed 44 characters maximum
120X!Edrivers/base/attribute_container.c
121-->
13405059 122!Edrivers/base/dd.c
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123<!--
124X!Edrivers/base/interface.c
125-->
44f28bde 126!Iinclude/linux/platform_device.h
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127!Edrivers/base/platform.c
128!Edrivers/base/bus.c
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129 </sect1>
130 <sect1><title>Device Drivers DMA Management</title>
35fac7e3 131!Edrivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c
e941759c 132!Edrivers/dma-buf/fence.c
606b23ad 133!Edrivers/dma-buf/seqno-fence.c
e941759c 134!Iinclude/linux/fence.h
606b23ad 135!Iinclude/linux/seqno-fence.h
04a5faa8 136!Edrivers/dma-buf/reservation.c
786d7257 137!Iinclude/linux/reservation.h
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138!Edrivers/base/dma-coherent.c
139!Edrivers/base/dma-mapping.c
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140 </sect1>
141 <sect1><title>Device Drivers Power Management</title>
142!Edrivers/base/power/main.c
143 </sect1>
144 <sect1><title>Device Drivers ACPI Support</title>
145<!-- Internal functions only
146X!Edrivers/acpi/sleep/main.c
147X!Edrivers/acpi/sleep/wakeup.c
148X!Edrivers/acpi/motherboard.c
149X!Edrivers/acpi/bus.c
150-->
151!Edrivers/acpi/scan.c
152!Idrivers/acpi/scan.c
153<!-- No correct structured comments
154X!Edrivers/acpi/pci_bind.c
155-->
156 </sect1>
157 <sect1><title>Device drivers PnP support</title>
158!Idrivers/pnp/core.c
159<!-- No correct structured comments
160X!Edrivers/pnp/system.c
161 -->
162!Edrivers/pnp/card.c
163!Idrivers/pnp/driver.c
164!Edrivers/pnp/manager.c
165!Edrivers/pnp/support.c
166 </sect1>
167 <sect1><title>Userspace IO devices</title>
168!Edrivers/uio/uio.c
169!Iinclude/linux/uio_driver.h
170 </sect1>
171 </chapter>
172
173 <chapter id="parportdev">
174 <title>Parallel Port Devices</title>
175!Iinclude/linux/parport.h
176!Edrivers/parport/ieee1284.c
177!Edrivers/parport/share.c
178!Idrivers/parport/daisy.c
179 </chapter>
180
181 <chapter id="message_devices">
182 <title>Message-based devices</title>
183 <sect1><title>Fusion message devices</title>
184!Edrivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c
185!Idrivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c
186!Edrivers/message/fusion/mptscsih.c
187!Idrivers/message/fusion/mptscsih.c
188!Idrivers/message/fusion/mptctl.c
189!Idrivers/message/fusion/mptspi.c
190!Idrivers/message/fusion/mptfc.c
191!Idrivers/message/fusion/mptlan.c
192 </sect1>
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193 </chapter>
194
195 <chapter id="snddev">
196 <title>Sound Devices</title>
197!Iinclude/sound/core.h
198!Esound/sound_core.c
199!Iinclude/sound/pcm.h
200!Esound/core/pcm.c
201!Esound/core/device.c
202!Esound/core/info.c
203!Esound/core/rawmidi.c
204!Esound/core/sound.c
205!Esound/core/memory.c
206!Esound/core/pcm_memory.c
207!Esound/core/init.c
208!Esound/core/isadma.c
209!Esound/core/control.c
210!Esound/core/pcm_lib.c
211!Esound/core/hwdep.c
212!Esound/core/pcm_native.c
213!Esound/core/memalloc.c
214<!-- FIXME: Removed for now since no structured comments in source
215X!Isound/sound_firmware.c
216-->
217 </chapter>
218
219 <chapter id="uart16x50">
220 <title>16x50 UART Driver</title>
fcf28564 221!Edrivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
5448bd8c 222!Edrivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c
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223 </chapter>
224
225 <chapter id="fbdev">
226 <title>Frame Buffer Library</title>
227
228 <para>
229 The frame buffer drivers depend heavily on four data structures.
230 These structures are declared in include/linux/fb.h. They are
231 fb_info, fb_var_screeninfo, fb_fix_screeninfo and fb_monospecs.
232 The last three can be made available to and from userland.
233 </para>
234
235 <para>
236 fb_info defines the current state of a particular video card.
237 Inside fb_info, there exists a fb_ops structure which is a
238 collection of needed functions to make fbdev and fbcon work.
239 fb_info is only visible to the kernel.
240 </para>
241
242 <para>
243 fb_var_screeninfo is used to describe the features of a video card
244 that are user defined. With fb_var_screeninfo, things such as
245 depth and the resolution may be defined.
246 </para>
247
248 <para>
249 The next structure is fb_fix_screeninfo. This defines the
250 properties of a card that are created when a mode is set and can't
251 be changed otherwise. A good example of this is the start of the
252 frame buffer memory. This "locks" the address of the frame buffer
253 memory, so that it cannot be changed or moved.
254 </para>
255
256 <para>
257 The last structure is fb_monospecs. In the old API, there was
258 little importance for fb_monospecs. This allowed for forbidden things
259 such as setting a mode of 800x600 on a fix frequency monitor. With
260 the new API, fb_monospecs prevents such things, and if used
261 correctly, can prevent a monitor from being cooked. fb_monospecs
262 will not be useful until kernels 2.5.x.
263 </para>
264
265 <sect1><title>Frame Buffer Memory</title>
19757fc8 266!Edrivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c
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267 </sect1>
268<!--
269 <sect1><title>Frame Buffer Console</title>
270X!Edrivers/video/console/fbcon.c
271 </sect1>
272-->
273 <sect1><title>Frame Buffer Colormap</title>
19757fc8 274!Edrivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcmap.c
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275 </sect1>
276<!-- FIXME:
277 drivers/video/fbgen.c has no docs, which stuffs up the sgml. Comment
278 out until somebody adds docs. KAO
279 <sect1><title>Frame Buffer Generic Functions</title>
280X!Idrivers/video/fbgen.c
281 </sect1>
282KAO -->
283 <sect1><title>Frame Buffer Video Mode Database</title>
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284!Idrivers/video/fbdev/core/modedb.c
285!Edrivers/video/fbdev/core/modedb.c
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286 </sect1>
287 <sect1><title>Frame Buffer Macintosh Video Mode Database</title>
f7018c21 288!Edrivers/video/fbdev/macmodes.c
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289 </sect1>
290 <sect1><title>Frame Buffer Fonts</title>
291 <para>
ee89bd6b 292 Refer to the file lib/fonts/fonts.c for more information.
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293 </para>
294<!-- FIXME: Removed for now since no structured comments in source
ee89bd6b 295X!Ilib/fonts/fonts.c
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297 </sect1>
298 </chapter>
299
300 <chapter id="input_subsystem">
301 <title>Input Subsystem</title>
d69249f4 302 <sect1><title>Input core</title>
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303!Iinclude/linux/input.h
304!Edrivers/input/input.c
305!Edrivers/input/ff-core.c
306!Edrivers/input/ff-memless.c
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307 </sect1>
308 <sect1><title>Multitouch Library</title>
309!Iinclude/linux/input/mt.h
310!Edrivers/input/input-mt.c
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311 </sect1>
312 <sect1><title>Polled input devices</title>
313!Iinclude/linux/input-polldev.h
314!Edrivers/input/input-polldev.c
315 </sect1>
316 <sect1><title>Matrix keyboars/keypads</title>
317!Iinclude/linux/input/matrix_keypad.h
318 </sect1>
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319 <sect1><title>Sparse keymap support</title>
320!Iinclude/linux/input/sparse-keymap.h
321!Edrivers/input/sparse-keymap.c
322 </sect1>
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323 </chapter>
324
325 <chapter id="spi">
326 <title>Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI)</title>
327 <para>
328 SPI is the "Serial Peripheral Interface", widely used with
329 embedded systems because it is a simple and efficient
330 interface: basically a multiplexed shift register.
331 Its three signal wires hold a clock (SCK, often in the range
332 of 1-20 MHz), a "Master Out, Slave In" (MOSI) data line, and
333 a "Master In, Slave Out" (MISO) data line.
334 SPI is a full duplex protocol; for each bit shifted out the
335 MOSI line (one per clock) another is shifted in on the MISO line.
336 Those bits are assembled into words of various sizes on the
337 way to and from system memory.
338 An additional chipselect line is usually active-low (nCS);
339 four signals are normally used for each peripheral, plus
340 sometimes an interrupt.
341 </para>
342 <para>
343 The SPI bus facilities listed here provide a generalized
344 interface to declare SPI busses and devices, manage them
345 according to the standard Linux driver model, and perform
346 input/output operations.
347 At this time, only "master" side interfaces are supported,
348 where Linux talks to SPI peripherals and does not implement
349 such a peripheral itself.
350 (Interfaces to support implementing SPI slaves would
351 necessarily look different.)
352 </para>
353 <para>
354 The programming interface is structured around two kinds of driver,
355 and two kinds of device.
356 A "Controller Driver" abstracts the controller hardware, which may
357 be as simple as a set of GPIO pins or as complex as a pair of FIFOs
358 connected to dual DMA engines on the other side of the SPI shift
359 register (maximizing throughput). Such drivers bridge between
360 whatever bus they sit on (often the platform bus) and SPI, and
361 expose the SPI side of their device as a
362 <structname>struct spi_master</structname>.
363 SPI devices are children of that master, represented as a
364 <structname>struct spi_device</structname> and manufactured from
365 <structname>struct spi_board_info</structname> descriptors which
366 are usually provided by board-specific initialization code.
367 A <structname>struct spi_driver</structname> is called a
368 "Protocol Driver", and is bound to a spi_device using normal
369 driver model calls.
370 </para>
371 <para>
372 The I/O model is a set of queued messages. Protocol drivers
373 submit one or more <structname>struct spi_message</structname>
374 objects, which are processed and completed asynchronously.
375 (There are synchronous wrappers, however.) Messages are
376 built from one or more <structname>struct spi_transfer</structname>
377 objects, each of which wraps a full duplex SPI transfer.
378 A variety of protocol tweaking options are needed, because
379 different chips adopt very different policies for how they
380 use the bits transferred with SPI.
381 </para>
382!Iinclude/linux/spi/spi.h
383!Fdrivers/spi/spi.c spi_register_board_info
384!Edrivers/spi/spi.c
385 </chapter>
386
387 <chapter id="i2c">
388 <title>I<superscript>2</superscript>C and SMBus Subsystem</title>
389
390 <para>
391 I<superscript>2</superscript>C (or without fancy typography, "I2C")
392 is an acronym for the "Inter-IC" bus, a simple bus protocol which is
393 widely used where low data rate communications suffice.
394 Since it's also a licensed trademark, some vendors use another
395 name (such as "Two-Wire Interface", TWI) for the same bus.
396 I2C only needs two signals (SCL for clock, SDA for data), conserving
397 board real estate and minimizing signal quality issues.
398 Most I2C devices use seven bit addresses, and bus speeds of up
399 to 400 kHz; there's a high speed extension (3.4 MHz) that's not yet
400 found wide use.
401 I2C is a multi-master bus; open drain signaling is used to
402 arbitrate between masters, as well as to handshake and to
403 synchronize clocks from slower clients.
404 </para>
405
406 <para>
407 The Linux I2C programming interfaces support only the master
408 side of bus interactions, not the slave side.
409 The programming interface is structured around two kinds of driver,
410 and two kinds of device.
411 An I2C "Adapter Driver" abstracts the controller hardware; it binds
412 to a physical device (perhaps a PCI device or platform_device) and
413 exposes a <structname>struct i2c_adapter</structname> representing
414 each I2C bus segment it manages.
415 On each I2C bus segment will be I2C devices represented by a
416 <structname>struct i2c_client</structname>. Those devices will
417 be bound to a <structname>struct i2c_driver</structname>,
418 which should follow the standard Linux driver model.
419 (At this writing, a legacy model is more widely used.)
420 There are functions to perform various I2C protocol operations; at
421 this writing all such functions are usable only from task context.
422 </para>
423
424 <para>
425 The System Management Bus (SMBus) is a sibling protocol. Most SMBus
426 systems are also I2C conformant. The electrical constraints are
427 tighter for SMBus, and it standardizes particular protocol messages
428 and idioms. Controllers that support I2C can also support most
429 SMBus operations, but SMBus controllers don't support all the protocol
430 options that an I2C controller will.
431 There are functions to perform various SMBus protocol operations,
432 either using I2C primitives or by issuing SMBus commands to
433 i2c_adapter devices which don't support those I2C operations.
434 </para>
435
436!Iinclude/linux/i2c.h
437!Fdrivers/i2c/i2c-boardinfo.c i2c_register_board_info
438!Edrivers/i2c/i2c-core.c
439 </chapter>
440
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441 <chapter id="hsi">
442 <title>High Speed Synchronous Serial Interface (HSI)</title>
443
444 <para>
445 High Speed Synchronous Serial Interface (HSI) is a
446 serial interface mainly used for connecting application
447 engines (APE) with cellular modem engines (CMT) in cellular
448 handsets.
449
450 HSI provides multiplexing for up to 16 logical channels,
451 low-latency and full duplex communication.
452 </para>
453
454!Iinclude/linux/hsi/hsi.h
455!Edrivers/hsi/hsi.c
456 </chapter>
457
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