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author | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2016-08-20 13:17:32 -0600 |
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committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2016-08-22 14:42:08 -0600 |
commit | dcec3c8c9aea9e779c59f420465381c0f3322913 (patch) | |
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docs: split up the driver book
We don't need to keep it as a single large file anymore; split it up so
that it is easier to manage and the individual sections can be read
directly as plain files.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/infrastructure.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/infrastructure.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..5d50d6733db3 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/infrastructure.rst @@ -0,0 +1,169 @@ +Device drivers infrastructure +============================= + +The Basic Device Driver-Model Structures +---------------------------------------- + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/device.h + :internal: + +Device Drivers Base +------------------- + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/init.c + :internal: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/driver.c + :export: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/core.c + :export: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/syscore.c + :export: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/class.c + :export: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/node.c + :internal: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/firmware_class.c + :export: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/transport_class.c + :export: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/dd.c + :export: + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/platform_device.h + :internal: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/platform.c + :export: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/bus.c + :export: + +Buffer Sharing and Synchronization +---------------------------------- + +The dma-buf subsystem provides the framework for sharing buffers for +hardware (DMA) access across multiple device drivers and subsystems, and +for synchronizing asynchronous hardware access. + +This is used, for example, by drm "prime" multi-GPU support, but is of +course not limited to GPU use cases. + +The three main components of this are: (1) dma-buf, representing a +sg_table and exposed to userspace as a file descriptor to allow passing +between devices, (2) fence, which provides a mechanism to signal when +one device as finished access, and (3) reservation, which manages the +shared or exclusive fence(s) associated with the buffer. + +dma-buf +~~~~~~~ + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c + :export: + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/dma-buf.h + :internal: + +reservation +~~~~~~~~~~~ + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/dma-buf/reservation.c + :doc: Reservation Object Overview + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/dma-buf/reservation.c + :export: + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/reservation.h + :internal: + +fence +~~~~~ + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/dma-buf/fence.c + :export: + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/fence.h + :internal: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/dma-buf/seqno-fence.c + :export: + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/seqno-fence.h + :internal: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/dma-buf/fence-array.c + :export: + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/fence-array.h + :internal: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/dma-buf/reservation.c + :export: + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/reservation.h + :internal: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/dma-buf/sync_file.c + :export: + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/sync_file.h + :internal: + +Device Drivers DMA Management +----------------------------- + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/dma-coherent.c + :export: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/dma-mapping.c + :export: + +Device Drivers Power Management +------------------------------- + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/power/main.c + :export: + +Device Drivers ACPI Support +--------------------------- + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/acpi/scan.c + :export: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/acpi/scan.c + :internal: + +Device drivers PnP support +-------------------------- + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/pnp/core.c + :internal: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/pnp/card.c + :export: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/pnp/driver.c + :internal: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/pnp/manager.c + :export: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/pnp/support.c + :export: + +Userspace IO devices +-------------------- + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/uio/uio.c + :export: + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/uio_driver.h + :internal: + |