The audience for the Kernel driver-model is clearly Kernel hackers.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> # ice driver changes
-:orphan:
-
============
Driver Model
============
Overview
-Please refer to `Documentation/driver-model/*.rst` for definitions of
+Please refer to `Documentation/driver-api/driver-model/*.rst` for definitions of
various driver types and concepts.
Most of the work of porting devices drivers to the new model happens
will pass the struct gpio_chip* for the chip to all IRQ callbacks, so the
callbacks need to embed the gpio_chip in its state container and obtain a
pointer to the container using container_of().
- (See Documentation/driver-model/design-patterns.rst)
+ (See Documentation/driver-api/driver-model/design-patterns.rst)
- gpiochip_irqchip_add_nested(): adds a nested cascaded irqchip to a gpiochip,
as discussed above regarding different types of cascaded irqchips. The
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 2
+ driver-model/index
basics
infrastructure
early-userspace/index
(driver_data).
driver a generic driver, such as described in
- Documentation/driver-model/driver.rst. Only .name,
+ Documentation/driver-api/driver-model/driver.rst. Only .name,
.probe and .remove members are mandatory.
=============== ====================================================
flags are EISA_CONFIG_ENABLED and EISA_CONFIG_FORCED.
res set of four 256 bytes I/O regions allocated to this device
dma_mask DMA mask set from the parent device.
-dev generic device (see Documentation/driver-model/device.rst)
+dev generic device (see Documentation/driver-api/driver-model/device.rst)
======== ============================================================
You can get the 'struct eisa_device' from 'struct device' using the
a stat(2) operation.
More information can driver-model specific features can be found in
-Documentation/driver-model/.
+Documentation/driver-api/driver-model/.
TODO: Finish this section.
console. Excessive logging can seriously affect system performance.
* Use devres functions whenever possible to allocate resources. For rationale
- and supported functions, please see Documentation/driver-model/devres.rst.
+ and supported functions, please see Documentation/driver-api/driver-model/devres.rst.
If a function is not supported by devres, consider using devm_add_action().
* If the driver has a detect function, make sure it is silent. Debug messages
中相应的设备。/sys/dev 提供一个通过一个 stat(2) 操作结果,查找
设备 sysfs 接口快捷的方法。
-更多有关 driver-model 的特性信息可以在 Documentation/driver-model/
+更多有关 driver-model 的特性信息可以在 Documentation/driver-api/driver-model/
中找到。
* Copyright (c) 2002-3 Patrick Mochel
* Copyright (c) 2002-3 Open Source Development Labs
*
- * Please see Documentation/driver-model/platform.rst for more
+ * Please see Documentation/driver-api/driver-model/platform.rst for more
* information.
*/
/*
* FIXME: convert this singleton driver to use the state container
- * design pattern, see Documentation/driver-model/design-patterns.rst
+ * design pattern, see Documentation/driver-api/driver-model/design-patterns.rst
*/
static struct cs5535_gpio_chip {
struct gpio_chip chip;
struct ice_hw *hw;
int err;
- /* this driver uses devres, see Documentation/driver-model/devres.rst */
+ /* this driver uses devres, see Documentation/driver-api/driver-model/devres.rst */
err = pcim_enable_device(pdev);
if (err)
return err;
* visorinput - keyboard and mouse
These drivers conform to the standard Linux bus/device model described
-within Documentation/driver-model/, and utilize a driver named visorbus to
+within Documentation/driver-api/driver-model/, and utilize a driver named visorbus to
present the virtual busses involved. Drivers in the 'visor*' driver set are
commonly referred to as "guest drivers" or "client drivers". All drivers
except visorbus expose a device of a specific usable class to the Linux guest
-----------------------------------
Because visorbus is a standard Linux bus driver in the model described in
-Documentation/driver-model/, the hierarchy of s-Par virtual devices is
+Documentation/driver-api/driver-model/, the hierarchy of s-Par virtual devices is
published in the sysfs tree beneath /bus/visorbus/, e.g.,
/sys/bus/visorbus/devices/ might look like:
* Copyright (c) 2004-2009 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Copyright (c) 2008-2009 Novell Inc.
*
- * See Documentation/driver-model/ for more information.
+ * See Documentation/driver-api/driver-model/ for more information.
*/
#ifndef _DEVICE_H_
*
* Copyright (c) 2001-2003 Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>
*
- * See Documentation/driver-model/ for more information.
+ * See Documentation/driver-api/driver-model/ for more information.
*/
#ifndef _PLATFORM_DEVICE_H_
/// functions. Values allocated using the devm_functions are freed when
/// the device is detached, and thus the use of the standard freeing
/// function would cause a double free.
-/// See Documentation/driver-model/devres.rst for more information.
+/// See Documentation/driver-api/driver-model/devres.rst for more information.
///
/// A difficulty of detecting this problem is that the standard freeing
/// function might be called from a different function than the one