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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>
dc2c8bd3 224!Iinclude/media/v4l2-async.h
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225!Iinclude/media/v4l2-ctrls.h
226!Iinclude/media/v4l2-dv-timings.h
227!Iinclude/media/v4l2-event.h
dc2c8bd3 228!Iinclude/media/v4l2-flash-led-class.h
04ffb9c1 229!Iinclude/media/v4l2-mediabus.h
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230!Iinclude/media/v4l2-mem2mem.h
231!Iinclude/media/v4l2-of.h
232!Iinclude/media/v4l2-subdev.h
04ffb9c1 233!Iinclude/media/videobuf2-core.h
1ccd66cc 234!Iinclude/media/videobuf2-v4l2.h
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235!Iinclude/media/videobuf2-memops.h
236 </sect1>
237 <sect1><title>Digital TV (DVB) devices</title>
fbefb1a8 238!Idrivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_ca_en50221.h
4f1c1868 239!Idrivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.h
e08bb6f7 240!Idrivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_math.h
2a86e373 241!Idrivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_ringbuffer.h
d071c833 242!Idrivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.h
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243 </sect1>
244 <sect1><title>Remote Controller devices</title>
245!Iinclude/media/rc-core.h
246 </sect1>
247 <sect1><title>Media Controller devices</title>
248!Iinclude/media/media-device.h
249!Iinclude/media/media-devnode.h
250!Iinclude/media/media-entity.h
251 </sect1>
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252
253 </chapter>
254
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255 <chapter id="uart16x50">
256 <title>16x50 UART Driver</title>
fcf28564 257!Edrivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
5448bd8c 258!Edrivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c
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259 </chapter>
260
261 <chapter id="fbdev">
262 <title>Frame Buffer Library</title>
263
264 <para>
265 The frame buffer drivers depend heavily on four data structures.
266 These structures are declared in include/linux/fb.h. They are
267 fb_info, fb_var_screeninfo, fb_fix_screeninfo and fb_monospecs.
268 The last three can be made available to and from userland.
269 </para>
270
271 <para>
272 fb_info defines the current state of a particular video card.
273 Inside fb_info, there exists a fb_ops structure which is a
274 collection of needed functions to make fbdev and fbcon work.
275 fb_info is only visible to the kernel.
276 </para>
277
278 <para>
279 fb_var_screeninfo is used to describe the features of a video card
280 that are user defined. With fb_var_screeninfo, things such as
281 depth and the resolution may be defined.
282 </para>
283
284 <para>
285 The next structure is fb_fix_screeninfo. This defines the
286 properties of a card that are created when a mode is set and can't
287 be changed otherwise. A good example of this is the start of the
288 frame buffer memory. This "locks" the address of the frame buffer
289 memory, so that it cannot be changed or moved.
290 </para>
291
292 <para>
293 The last structure is fb_monospecs. In the old API, there was
294 little importance for fb_monospecs. This allowed for forbidden things
295 such as setting a mode of 800x600 on a fix frequency monitor. With
296 the new API, fb_monospecs prevents such things, and if used
297 correctly, can prevent a monitor from being cooked. fb_monospecs
298 will not be useful until kernels 2.5.x.
299 </para>
300
301 <sect1><title>Frame Buffer Memory</title>
19757fc8 302!Edrivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c
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303 </sect1>
304<!--
305 <sect1><title>Frame Buffer Console</title>
306X!Edrivers/video/console/fbcon.c
307 </sect1>
308-->
309 <sect1><title>Frame Buffer Colormap</title>
19757fc8 310!Edrivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcmap.c
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311 </sect1>
312<!-- FIXME:
313 drivers/video/fbgen.c has no docs, which stuffs up the sgml. Comment
314 out until somebody adds docs. KAO
315 <sect1><title>Frame Buffer Generic Functions</title>
316X!Idrivers/video/fbgen.c
317 </sect1>
318KAO -->
319 <sect1><title>Frame Buffer Video Mode Database</title>
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320!Idrivers/video/fbdev/core/modedb.c
321!Edrivers/video/fbdev/core/modedb.c
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322 </sect1>
323 <sect1><title>Frame Buffer Macintosh Video Mode Database</title>
f7018c21 324!Edrivers/video/fbdev/macmodes.c
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325 </sect1>
326 <sect1><title>Frame Buffer Fonts</title>
327 <para>
ee89bd6b 328 Refer to the file lib/fonts/fonts.c for more information.
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329 </para>
330<!-- FIXME: Removed for now since no structured comments in source
ee89bd6b 331X!Ilib/fonts/fonts.c
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333 </sect1>
334 </chapter>
335
336 <chapter id="input_subsystem">
337 <title>Input Subsystem</title>
d69249f4 338 <sect1><title>Input core</title>
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339!Iinclude/linux/input.h
340!Edrivers/input/input.c
341!Edrivers/input/ff-core.c
342!Edrivers/input/ff-memless.c
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343 </sect1>
344 <sect1><title>Multitouch Library</title>
345!Iinclude/linux/input/mt.h
346!Edrivers/input/input-mt.c
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347 </sect1>
348 <sect1><title>Polled input devices</title>
349!Iinclude/linux/input-polldev.h
350!Edrivers/input/input-polldev.c
351 </sect1>
352 <sect1><title>Matrix keyboars/keypads</title>
353!Iinclude/linux/input/matrix_keypad.h
354 </sect1>
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355 <sect1><title>Sparse keymap support</title>
356!Iinclude/linux/input/sparse-keymap.h
357!Edrivers/input/sparse-keymap.c
358 </sect1>
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359 </chapter>
360
361 <chapter id="spi">
362 <title>Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI)</title>
363 <para>
364 SPI is the "Serial Peripheral Interface", widely used with
365 embedded systems because it is a simple and efficient
366 interface: basically a multiplexed shift register.
367 Its three signal wires hold a clock (SCK, often in the range
368 of 1-20 MHz), a "Master Out, Slave In" (MOSI) data line, and
369 a "Master In, Slave Out" (MISO) data line.
370 SPI is a full duplex protocol; for each bit shifted out the
371 MOSI line (one per clock) another is shifted in on the MISO line.
372 Those bits are assembled into words of various sizes on the
373 way to and from system memory.
374 An additional chipselect line is usually active-low (nCS);
375 four signals are normally used for each peripheral, plus
376 sometimes an interrupt.
377 </para>
378 <para>
379 The SPI bus facilities listed here provide a generalized
380 interface to declare SPI busses and devices, manage them
381 according to the standard Linux driver model, and perform
382 input/output operations.
383 At this time, only "master" side interfaces are supported,
384 where Linux talks to SPI peripherals and does not implement
385 such a peripheral itself.
386 (Interfaces to support implementing SPI slaves would
387 necessarily look different.)
388 </para>
389 <para>
390 The programming interface is structured around two kinds of driver,
391 and two kinds of device.
392 A "Controller Driver" abstracts the controller hardware, which may
393 be as simple as a set of GPIO pins or as complex as a pair of FIFOs
394 connected to dual DMA engines on the other side of the SPI shift
395 register (maximizing throughput). Such drivers bridge between
396 whatever bus they sit on (often the platform bus) and SPI, and
397 expose the SPI side of their device as a
398 <structname>struct spi_master</structname>.
399 SPI devices are children of that master, represented as a
400 <structname>struct spi_device</structname> and manufactured from
401 <structname>struct spi_board_info</structname> descriptors which
402 are usually provided by board-specific initialization code.
403 A <structname>struct spi_driver</structname> is called a
404 "Protocol Driver", and is bound to a spi_device using normal
405 driver model calls.
406 </para>
407 <para>
408 The I/O model is a set of queued messages. Protocol drivers
409 submit one or more <structname>struct spi_message</structname>
410 objects, which are processed and completed asynchronously.
411 (There are synchronous wrappers, however.) Messages are
412 built from one or more <structname>struct spi_transfer</structname>
413 objects, each of which wraps a full duplex SPI transfer.
414 A variety of protocol tweaking options are needed, because
415 different chips adopt very different policies for how they
416 use the bits transferred with SPI.
417 </para>
418!Iinclude/linux/spi/spi.h
419!Fdrivers/spi/spi.c spi_register_board_info
420!Edrivers/spi/spi.c
421 </chapter>
422
423 <chapter id="i2c">
424 <title>I<superscript>2</superscript>C and SMBus Subsystem</title>
425
426 <para>
427 I<superscript>2</superscript>C (or without fancy typography, "I2C")
428 is an acronym for the "Inter-IC" bus, a simple bus protocol which is
429 widely used where low data rate communications suffice.
430 Since it's also a licensed trademark, some vendors use another
431 name (such as "Two-Wire Interface", TWI) for the same bus.
432 I2C only needs two signals (SCL for clock, SDA for data), conserving
433 board real estate and minimizing signal quality issues.
434 Most I2C devices use seven bit addresses, and bus speeds of up
435 to 400 kHz; there's a high speed extension (3.4 MHz) that's not yet
436 found wide use.
437 I2C is a multi-master bus; open drain signaling is used to
438 arbitrate between masters, as well as to handshake and to
439 synchronize clocks from slower clients.
440 </para>
441
442 <para>
443 The Linux I2C programming interfaces support only the master
444 side of bus interactions, not the slave side.
445 The programming interface is structured around two kinds of driver,
446 and two kinds of device.
447 An I2C "Adapter Driver" abstracts the controller hardware; it binds
448 to a physical device (perhaps a PCI device or platform_device) and
449 exposes a <structname>struct i2c_adapter</structname> representing
450 each I2C bus segment it manages.
451 On each I2C bus segment will be I2C devices represented by a
452 <structname>struct i2c_client</structname>. Those devices will
453 be bound to a <structname>struct i2c_driver</structname>,
454 which should follow the standard Linux driver model.
455 (At this writing, a legacy model is more widely used.)
456 There are functions to perform various I2C protocol operations; at
457 this writing all such functions are usable only from task context.
458 </para>
459
460 <para>
461 The System Management Bus (SMBus) is a sibling protocol. Most SMBus
462 systems are also I2C conformant. The electrical constraints are
463 tighter for SMBus, and it standardizes particular protocol messages
464 and idioms. Controllers that support I2C can also support most
465 SMBus operations, but SMBus controllers don't support all the protocol
466 options that an I2C controller will.
467 There are functions to perform various SMBus protocol operations,
468 either using I2C primitives or by issuing SMBus commands to
469 i2c_adapter devices which don't support those I2C operations.
470 </para>
471
472!Iinclude/linux/i2c.h
473!Fdrivers/i2c/i2c-boardinfo.c i2c_register_board_info
474!Edrivers/i2c/i2c-core.c
475 </chapter>
476
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477 <chapter id="hsi">
478 <title>High Speed Synchronous Serial Interface (HSI)</title>
479
480 <para>
481 High Speed Synchronous Serial Interface (HSI) is a
482 serial interface mainly used for connecting application
483 engines (APE) with cellular modem engines (CMT) in cellular
484 handsets.
485
486 HSI provides multiplexing for up to 16 logical channels,
487 low-latency and full duplex communication.
488 </para>
489
490!Iinclude/linux/hsi/hsi.h
491!Edrivers/hsi/hsi.c
492 </chapter>
493
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494 <chapter id="pwm">
495 <title>Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM)</title>
496 <para>
497 Pulse-width modulation is a modulation technique primarily used to
498 control power supplied to electrical devices.
499 </para>
500 <para>
501 The PWM framework provides an abstraction for providers and consumers
502 of PWM signals. A controller that provides one or more PWM signals is
503 registered as <structname>struct pwm_chip</structname>. Providers are
504 expected to embed this structure in a driver-specific structure. This
505 structure contains fields that describe a particular chip.
506 </para>
507 <para>
508 A chip exposes one or more PWM signal sources, each of which exposed
509 as a <structname>struct pwm_device</structname>. Operations can be
510 performed on PWM devices to control the period, duty cycle, polarity
511 and active state of the signal.
512 </para>
513 <para>
514 Note that PWM devices are exclusive resources: they can always only be
515 used by one consumer at a time.
516 </para>
517!Iinclude/linux/pwm.h
518!Edrivers/pwm/core.c
519 </chapter>
520
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