| Jonathan Corbet | dcec3c8 | 2016-08-20 13:17:32 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | ======================================== |
| 2 | The Linux driver implementer's API guide | ||||
| 3 | ======================================== | ||||
| 4 | |||||
| 5 | The kernel offers a wide variety of interfaces to support the development | ||||
| 6 | of device drivers. This document is an only somewhat organized collection | ||||
| 7 | of some of those interfaces — it will hopefully get better over time! The | ||||
| 8 | available subsections can be seen below. | ||||
| 9 | |||||
| 10 | .. class:: toc-title | ||||
| 11 | |||||
| 12 | Table of contents | ||||
| 13 | |||||
| 14 | .. toctree:: | ||||
| 15 | :maxdepth: 2 | ||||
| 16 | |||||
| 17 | basics | ||||
| 18 | infrastructure | ||||
| Rafael J. Wysocki | 2728b2d | 2017-02-02 01:32:13 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 19 | pm/index |
| Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 18bcaa4 | 2018-05-07 06:35:44 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 20 | clk |
| Jonathan Corbet | 8a8a602 | 2017-01-27 15:43:01 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 21 | device-io |
| Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 2d93404 | 2018-05-07 06:35:39 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 22 | device_connection |
| Daniel Vetter | 868c97a | 2016-12-09 19:53:05 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 23 | dma-buf |
| Lukas Wunner | aad80040 | 2016-12-04 13:10:04 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 24 | device_link |
| Jonathan Corbet | dcec3c8 | 2016-08-20 13:17:32 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 25 | message-based |
| 26 | sound | ||||
| 27 | frame-buffer | ||||
| Jonathan Corbet | 028f253 | 2017-01-27 16:50:34 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 28 | regulator |
| Jonathan Cameron | 49b2fd6 | 2017-01-01 12:32:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 29 | iio/index |
| Jonathan Corbet | dcec3c8 | 2016-08-20 13:17:32 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 30 | input |
| Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 4ad4b21 | 2017-04-05 10:22:57 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 31 | usb/index |
| Randy Dunlap | ea2ae0e | 2018-09-04 17:02:24 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 32 | firewire |
| Logan Gunthorpe | fcc78f9 | 2018-10-04 15:27:39 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 33 | pci/index |
| Jonathan Corbet | 5e99578 | 2016-09-06 07:15:24 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 34 | spi |
| 35 | i2c | ||||
| 36 | hsi | ||||
| Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 6634fbb | 2016-10-26 14:14:45 -0200 | [diff] [blame] | 37 | edac |
| Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 6020236 | 2017-05-12 09:59:02 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 38 | scsi |
| Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 0ec8841 | 2017-05-12 08:14:47 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 39 | libata |
| Randy Dunlap | 6a59fd7 | 2018-04-14 10:51:06 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 40 | target |
| Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 609f212 | 2017-05-13 07:10:44 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 41 | mtdnand |
| Jonathan Corbet | dcec3c8 | 2016-08-20 13:17:32 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 42 | miscellaneous |
| Mauro Carvalho Chehab | b4c1064 | 2017-05-12 10:28:13 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 43 | w1 |
| Mauro Carvalho Chehab | e85ca0a | 2017-05-12 10:31:41 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 44 | rapidio |
| Mauro Carvalho Chehab | bcb1a87 | 2017-05-12 08:57:50 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 45 | s390-drivers |
| Martyn Welch | 75a163c | 2016-10-21 22:15:27 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 46 | vme |
| Jonathan Corbet | 0bb33e2 | 2016-11-18 16:04:48 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 47 | 80211/index |
| Alexander Dahl | cadf8106 | 2017-01-28 10:45:32 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 48 | uio-howto |
| Luis R. Rodriguez | 113ccc3 | 2016-12-16 03:10:36 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 49 | firmware/index |
| Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 5a9b738 | 2017-06-17 12:03:01 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 50 | pinctl |
| Jonathan Neuschäfer | 7e63325 | 2018-03-09 00:40:18 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 51 | gpio/index |
| Mauro Carvalho Chehab | c7e2c06 | 2017-03-31 18:17:00 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 52 | misc_devices |
| Vinod Koul | 8a0698c | 2017-11-03 10:19:37 +0530 | [diff] [blame] | 53 | dmaengine/index |
| Sagar Dharia | 202318d | 2017-12-11 23:42:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 54 | slimbus |
| Sanyog Kale | 8ecf426 | 2017-12-14 11:19:32 +0530 | [diff] [blame] | 55 | soundwire/index |
| Alan Tull | 66c472c | 2018-05-16 18:50:02 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 56 | fpga/index |
| Markus Heiser | 241a802 | 2016-10-26 08:23:15 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 57 | |
| 58 | .. only:: subproject and html | ||||
| 59 | |||||
| 60 | Indices | ||||
| 61 | ======= | ||||
| 62 | |||||
| 63 | * :ref:`genindex` | ||||