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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>
81db32a3 69!Iinclude/linux/workqueue.h
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70!Ekernel/workqueue.c
71 </sect1>
72 <sect1><title>Internal Functions</title>
73!Ikernel/exit.c
74!Ikernel/signal.c
75!Iinclude/linux/kthread.h
76!Ekernel/kthread.c
77 </sect1>
78
79 <sect1><title>Kernel objects manipulation</title>
80<!--
81X!Iinclude/linux/kobject.h
82-->
83!Elib/kobject.c
84 </sect1>
85
86 <sect1><title>Kernel utility functions</title>
87!Iinclude/linux/kernel.h
b9ee979e 88!Ekernel/printk/printk.c
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89!Ekernel/panic.c
90!Ekernel/sys.c
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91!Ekernel/rcu/srcu.c
92!Ekernel/rcu/tree.c
93!Ekernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
94!Ekernel/rcu/update.c
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95 </sect1>
96
97 <sect1><title>Device Resource Management</title>
98!Edrivers/base/devres.c
99 </sect1>
100
101 </chapter>
102
103 <chapter id="devdrivers">
104 <title>Device drivers infrastructure</title>
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105 <sect1><title>The Basic Device Driver-Model Structures </title>
106!Iinclude/linux/device.h
107 </sect1>
f7f84f38 108 <sect1><title>Device Drivers Base</title>
13405059 109!Idrivers/base/init.c
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110!Edrivers/base/driver.c
111!Edrivers/base/core.c
13405059 112!Edrivers/base/syscore.c
f7f84f38 113!Edrivers/base/class.c
13405059 114!Idrivers/base/node.c
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115!Edrivers/base/firmware_class.c
116!Edrivers/base/transport_class.c
117<!-- Cannot be included, because
118 attribute_container_add_class_device_adapter
119 and attribute_container_classdev_to_container
120 exceed allowed 44 characters maximum
121X!Edrivers/base/attribute_container.c
122-->
13405059 123!Edrivers/base/dd.c
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124<!--
125X!Edrivers/base/interface.c
126-->
44f28bde 127!Iinclude/linux/platform_device.h
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128!Edrivers/base/platform.c
129!Edrivers/base/bus.c
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130 </sect1>
131 <sect1><title>Device Drivers DMA Management</title>
35fac7e3 132!Edrivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c
e941759c 133!Edrivers/dma-buf/fence.c
606b23ad 134!Edrivers/dma-buf/seqno-fence.c
e941759c 135!Iinclude/linux/fence.h
606b23ad 136!Iinclude/linux/seqno-fence.h
04a5faa8 137!Edrivers/dma-buf/reservation.c
786d7257 138!Iinclude/linux/reservation.h
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139!Edrivers/base/dma-coherent.c
140!Edrivers/base/dma-mapping.c
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141 </sect1>
142 <sect1><title>Device Drivers Power Management</title>
143!Edrivers/base/power/main.c
144 </sect1>
145 <sect1><title>Device Drivers ACPI Support</title>
146<!-- Internal functions only
147X!Edrivers/acpi/sleep/main.c
148X!Edrivers/acpi/sleep/wakeup.c
149X!Edrivers/acpi/motherboard.c
150X!Edrivers/acpi/bus.c
151-->
152!Edrivers/acpi/scan.c
153!Idrivers/acpi/scan.c
154<!-- No correct structured comments
155X!Edrivers/acpi/pci_bind.c
156-->
157 </sect1>
158 <sect1><title>Device drivers PnP support</title>
159!Idrivers/pnp/core.c
160<!-- No correct structured comments
161X!Edrivers/pnp/system.c
162 -->
163!Edrivers/pnp/card.c
164!Idrivers/pnp/driver.c
165!Edrivers/pnp/manager.c
166!Edrivers/pnp/support.c
167 </sect1>
168 <sect1><title>Userspace IO devices</title>
169!Edrivers/uio/uio.c
170!Iinclude/linux/uio_driver.h
171 </sect1>
172 </chapter>
173
174 <chapter id="parportdev">
175 <title>Parallel Port Devices</title>
176!Iinclude/linux/parport.h
177!Edrivers/parport/ieee1284.c
178!Edrivers/parport/share.c
179!Idrivers/parport/daisy.c
180 </chapter>
181
182 <chapter id="message_devices">
183 <title>Message-based devices</title>
184 <sect1><title>Fusion message devices</title>
185!Edrivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c
186!Idrivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c
187!Edrivers/message/fusion/mptscsih.c
188!Idrivers/message/fusion/mptscsih.c
189!Idrivers/message/fusion/mptctl.c
190!Idrivers/message/fusion/mptspi.c
191!Idrivers/message/fusion/mptfc.c
192!Idrivers/message/fusion/mptlan.c
193 </sect1>
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194 </chapter>
195
196 <chapter id="snddev">
197 <title>Sound Devices</title>
198!Iinclude/sound/core.h
199!Esound/sound_core.c
200!Iinclude/sound/pcm.h
201!Esound/core/pcm.c
202!Esound/core/device.c
203!Esound/core/info.c
204!Esound/core/rawmidi.c
205!Esound/core/sound.c
206!Esound/core/memory.c
207!Esound/core/pcm_memory.c
208!Esound/core/init.c
209!Esound/core/isadma.c
210!Esound/core/control.c
211!Esound/core/pcm_lib.c
212!Esound/core/hwdep.c
213!Esound/core/pcm_native.c
214!Esound/core/memalloc.c
215<!-- FIXME: Removed for now since no structured comments in source
216X!Isound/sound_firmware.c
217-->
218 </chapter>
219
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220 <chapter id="mediadev">
221 <title>Media Devices</title>
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222
223 <sect1><title>Video2Linux devices</title>
07c68a74 224!Iinclude/media/tuner.h
5057f326 225!Iinclude/media/tuner-types.h
326ab27b 226!Iinclude/media/tveeprom.h
dc2c8bd3 227!Iinclude/media/v4l2-async.h
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228!Iinclude/media/v4l2-ctrls.h
229!Iinclude/media/v4l2-dv-timings.h
230!Iinclude/media/v4l2-event.h
dc2c8bd3 231!Iinclude/media/v4l2-flash-led-class.h
04ffb9c1 232!Iinclude/media/v4l2-mediabus.h
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233!Iinclude/media/v4l2-mem2mem.h
234!Iinclude/media/v4l2-of.h
235!Iinclude/media/v4l2-subdev.h
04ffb9c1 236!Iinclude/media/videobuf2-core.h
1ccd66cc 237!Iinclude/media/videobuf2-v4l2.h
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238!Iinclude/media/videobuf2-memops.h
239 </sect1>
240 <sect1><title>Digital TV (DVB) devices</title>
fbefb1a8 241!Idrivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_ca_en50221.h
95abfdb9 242!Idrivers/media/dvb-core/demux.h
4f1c1868 243!Idrivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.h
e08bb6f7 244!Idrivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_math.h
2a86e373 245!Idrivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_ringbuffer.h
d071c833 246!Idrivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.h
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247 </sect1>
248 <sect1><title>Remote Controller devices</title>
249!Iinclude/media/rc-core.h
be14c5cd 250!Iinclude/media/lirc_dev.h
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251 </sect1>
252 <sect1><title>Media Controller devices</title>
253!Iinclude/media/media-device.h
254!Iinclude/media/media-devnode.h
255!Iinclude/media/media-entity.h
256 </sect1>
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257
258 </chapter>
259
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260 <chapter id="uart16x50">
261 <title>16x50 UART Driver</title>
fcf28564 262!Edrivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
5448bd8c 263!Edrivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c
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264 </chapter>
265
266 <chapter id="fbdev">
267 <title>Frame Buffer Library</title>
268
269 <para>
270 The frame buffer drivers depend heavily on four data structures.
271 These structures are declared in include/linux/fb.h. They are
272 fb_info, fb_var_screeninfo, fb_fix_screeninfo and fb_monospecs.
273 The last three can be made available to and from userland.
274 </para>
275
276 <para>
277 fb_info defines the current state of a particular video card.
278 Inside fb_info, there exists a fb_ops structure which is a
279 collection of needed functions to make fbdev and fbcon work.
280 fb_info is only visible to the kernel.
281 </para>
282
283 <para>
284 fb_var_screeninfo is used to describe the features of a video card
285 that are user defined. With fb_var_screeninfo, things such as
286 depth and the resolution may be defined.
287 </para>
288
289 <para>
290 The next structure is fb_fix_screeninfo. This defines the
291 properties of a card that are created when a mode is set and can't
292 be changed otherwise. A good example of this is the start of the
293 frame buffer memory. This "locks" the address of the frame buffer
294 memory, so that it cannot be changed or moved.
295 </para>
296
297 <para>
298 The last structure is fb_monospecs. In the old API, there was
299 little importance for fb_monospecs. This allowed for forbidden things
300 such as setting a mode of 800x600 on a fix frequency monitor. With
301 the new API, fb_monospecs prevents such things, and if used
302 correctly, can prevent a monitor from being cooked. fb_monospecs
303 will not be useful until kernels 2.5.x.
304 </para>
305
306 <sect1><title>Frame Buffer Memory</title>
19757fc8 307!Edrivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c
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308 </sect1>
309<!--
310 <sect1><title>Frame Buffer Console</title>
311X!Edrivers/video/console/fbcon.c
312 </sect1>
313-->
314 <sect1><title>Frame Buffer Colormap</title>
19757fc8 315!Edrivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcmap.c
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316 </sect1>
317<!-- FIXME:
318 drivers/video/fbgen.c has no docs, which stuffs up the sgml. Comment
319 out until somebody adds docs. KAO
320 <sect1><title>Frame Buffer Generic Functions</title>
321X!Idrivers/video/fbgen.c
322 </sect1>
323KAO -->
324 <sect1><title>Frame Buffer Video Mode Database</title>
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325!Idrivers/video/fbdev/core/modedb.c
326!Edrivers/video/fbdev/core/modedb.c
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327 </sect1>
328 <sect1><title>Frame Buffer Macintosh Video Mode Database</title>
f7018c21 329!Edrivers/video/fbdev/macmodes.c
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330 </sect1>
331 <sect1><title>Frame Buffer Fonts</title>
332 <para>
ee89bd6b 333 Refer to the file lib/fonts/fonts.c for more information.
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334 </para>
335<!-- FIXME: Removed for now since no structured comments in source
ee89bd6b 336X!Ilib/fonts/fonts.c
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338 </sect1>
339 </chapter>
340
341 <chapter id="input_subsystem">
342 <title>Input Subsystem</title>
d69249f4 343 <sect1><title>Input core</title>
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344!Iinclude/linux/input.h
345!Edrivers/input/input.c
346!Edrivers/input/ff-core.c
347!Edrivers/input/ff-memless.c
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348 </sect1>
349 <sect1><title>Multitouch Library</title>
350!Iinclude/linux/input/mt.h
351!Edrivers/input/input-mt.c
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352 </sect1>
353 <sect1><title>Polled input devices</title>
354!Iinclude/linux/input-polldev.h
355!Edrivers/input/input-polldev.c
356 </sect1>
357 <sect1><title>Matrix keyboars/keypads</title>
358!Iinclude/linux/input/matrix_keypad.h
359 </sect1>
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360 <sect1><title>Sparse keymap support</title>
361!Iinclude/linux/input/sparse-keymap.h
362!Edrivers/input/sparse-keymap.c
363 </sect1>
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364 </chapter>
365
366 <chapter id="spi">
367 <title>Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI)</title>
368 <para>
369 SPI is the "Serial Peripheral Interface", widely used with
370 embedded systems because it is a simple and efficient
371 interface: basically a multiplexed shift register.
372 Its three signal wires hold a clock (SCK, often in the range
373 of 1-20 MHz), a "Master Out, Slave In" (MOSI) data line, and
374 a "Master In, Slave Out" (MISO) data line.
375 SPI is a full duplex protocol; for each bit shifted out the
376 MOSI line (one per clock) another is shifted in on the MISO line.
377 Those bits are assembled into words of various sizes on the
378 way to and from system memory.
379 An additional chipselect line is usually active-low (nCS);
380 four signals are normally used for each peripheral, plus
381 sometimes an interrupt.
382 </para>
383 <para>
384 The SPI bus facilities listed here provide a generalized
385 interface to declare SPI busses and devices, manage them
386 according to the standard Linux driver model, and perform
387 input/output operations.
388 At this time, only "master" side interfaces are supported,
389 where Linux talks to SPI peripherals and does not implement
390 such a peripheral itself.
391 (Interfaces to support implementing SPI slaves would
392 necessarily look different.)
393 </para>
394 <para>
395 The programming interface is structured around two kinds of driver,
396 and two kinds of device.
397 A "Controller Driver" abstracts the controller hardware, which may
398 be as simple as a set of GPIO pins or as complex as a pair of FIFOs
399 connected to dual DMA engines on the other side of the SPI shift
400 register (maximizing throughput). Such drivers bridge between
401 whatever bus they sit on (often the platform bus) and SPI, and
402 expose the SPI side of their device as a
403 <structname>struct spi_master</structname>.
404 SPI devices are children of that master, represented as a
405 <structname>struct spi_device</structname> and manufactured from
406 <structname>struct spi_board_info</structname> descriptors which
407 are usually provided by board-specific initialization code.
408 A <structname>struct spi_driver</structname> is called a
409 "Protocol Driver", and is bound to a spi_device using normal
410 driver model calls.
411 </para>
412 <para>
413 The I/O model is a set of queued messages. Protocol drivers
414 submit one or more <structname>struct spi_message</structname>
415 objects, which are processed and completed asynchronously.
416 (There are synchronous wrappers, however.) Messages are
417 built from one or more <structname>struct spi_transfer</structname>
418 objects, each of which wraps a full duplex SPI transfer.
419 A variety of protocol tweaking options are needed, because
420 different chips adopt very different policies for how they
421 use the bits transferred with SPI.
422 </para>
423!Iinclude/linux/spi/spi.h
424!Fdrivers/spi/spi.c spi_register_board_info
425!Edrivers/spi/spi.c
426 </chapter>
427
428 <chapter id="i2c">
429 <title>I<superscript>2</superscript>C and SMBus Subsystem</title>
430
431 <para>
432 I<superscript>2</superscript>C (or without fancy typography, "I2C")
433 is an acronym for the "Inter-IC" bus, a simple bus protocol which is
434 widely used where low data rate communications suffice.
435 Since it's also a licensed trademark, some vendors use another
436 name (such as "Two-Wire Interface", TWI) for the same bus.
437 I2C only needs two signals (SCL for clock, SDA for data), conserving
438 board real estate and minimizing signal quality issues.
439 Most I2C devices use seven bit addresses, and bus speeds of up
440 to 400 kHz; there's a high speed extension (3.4 MHz) that's not yet
441 found wide use.
442 I2C is a multi-master bus; open drain signaling is used to
443 arbitrate between masters, as well as to handshake and to
444 synchronize clocks from slower clients.
445 </para>
446
447 <para>
448 The Linux I2C programming interfaces support only the master
449 side of bus interactions, not the slave side.
450 The programming interface is structured around two kinds of driver,
451 and two kinds of device.
452 An I2C "Adapter Driver" abstracts the controller hardware; it binds
453 to a physical device (perhaps a PCI device or platform_device) and
454 exposes a <structname>struct i2c_adapter</structname> representing
455 each I2C bus segment it manages.
456 On each I2C bus segment will be I2C devices represented by a
457 <structname>struct i2c_client</structname>. Those devices will
458 be bound to a <structname>struct i2c_driver</structname>,
459 which should follow the standard Linux driver model.
460 (At this writing, a legacy model is more widely used.)
461 There are functions to perform various I2C protocol operations; at
462 this writing all such functions are usable only from task context.
463 </para>
464
465 <para>
466 The System Management Bus (SMBus) is a sibling protocol. Most SMBus
467 systems are also I2C conformant. The electrical constraints are
468 tighter for SMBus, and it standardizes particular protocol messages
469 and idioms. Controllers that support I2C can also support most
470 SMBus operations, but SMBus controllers don't support all the protocol
471 options that an I2C controller will.
472 There are functions to perform various SMBus protocol operations,
473 either using I2C primitives or by issuing SMBus commands to
474 i2c_adapter devices which don't support those I2C operations.
475 </para>
476
477!Iinclude/linux/i2c.h
478!Fdrivers/i2c/i2c-boardinfo.c i2c_register_board_info
479!Edrivers/i2c/i2c-core.c
480 </chapter>
481
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482 <chapter id="hsi">
483 <title>High Speed Synchronous Serial Interface (HSI)</title>
484
485 <para>
486 High Speed Synchronous Serial Interface (HSI) is a
487 serial interface mainly used for connecting application
488 engines (APE) with cellular modem engines (CMT) in cellular
489 handsets.
490
491 HSI provides multiplexing for up to 16 logical channels,
492 low-latency and full duplex communication.
493 </para>
494
495!Iinclude/linux/hsi/hsi.h
496!Edrivers/hsi/hsi.c
497 </chapter>
498
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499 <chapter id="pwm">
500 <title>Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM)</title>
501 <para>
502 Pulse-width modulation is a modulation technique primarily used to
503 control power supplied to electrical devices.
504 </para>
505 <para>
506 The PWM framework provides an abstraction for providers and consumers
507 of PWM signals. A controller that provides one or more PWM signals is
508 registered as <structname>struct pwm_chip</structname>. Providers are
509 expected to embed this structure in a driver-specific structure. This
510 structure contains fields that describe a particular chip.
511 </para>
512 <para>
513 A chip exposes one or more PWM signal sources, each of which exposed
514 as a <structname>struct pwm_device</structname>. Operations can be
515 performed on PWM devices to control the period, duty cycle, polarity
516 and active state of the signal.
517 </para>
518 <para>
519 Note that PWM devices are exclusive resources: they can always only be
520 used by one consumer at a time.
521 </para>
522!Iinclude/linux/pwm.h
523!Edrivers/pwm/core.c
524 </chapter>
525
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