1.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
  2
  3==============================
  4Driver implementer's API guide
  5==============================
  6
  7The kernel offers a wide variety of interfaces to support the development
  8of device drivers.  This document is an only somewhat organized collection
  9of some of those interfaces — it will hopefully get better over time!  The
 10available subsections can be seen below.
 11
 
 12
 13General information for driver authors
 14======================================
 15
 16This section contains documentation that should, at some point or other, be
 17of interest to most developers working on device drivers.
 18
 19.. toctree::
 20   :maxdepth: 1
 21
 22   basics
 23   driver-model/index
 24   device_link
 25   infrastructure
 26   ioctl
 27   pm/index
 28
 29Useful support libraries
 30========================
 31
 32This section contains documentation that should, at some point or other, be
 33of interest to most developers working on device drivers.
 34
 35.. toctree::
 36   :maxdepth: 1
 37
 38   early-userspace/index
 39   connector
 40   device-io
 41   devfreq
 42   dma-buf
 43   component
 44   io-mapping
 45   io_ordering
 46   uio-howto
 47   vfio-mediated-device
 48   vfio
 49   vfio-pci-device-specific-driver-acceptance
 50
 51Bus-level documentation
 52=======================
 53
 54.. toctree::
 55   :maxdepth: 1
 56
 57   auxiliary_bus
 58   cxl/index
 59   eisa
 60   firewire
 61   i3c/index
 62   isa
 63   men-chameleon-bus
 64   pci/index
 65   rapidio/index
 66   slimbus
 67   usb/index
 68   virtio/index
 69   vme
 70   w1
 71   xillybus
 72
 73
 74Subsystem-specific APIs
 75=======================
 76
 77.. toctree::
 78   :maxdepth: 1
 79
 80   80211/index
 81   acpi/index
 82   backlight/lp855x-driver.rst
 83   clk
 84   console
 85   crypto/index
 86   dmaengine/index
 87   dpll
 88   edac
 89   firmware/index
 90   fpga/index
 91   frame-buffer
 92   aperture
 93   generic-counter
 94   gpio/index
 95   hsi
 96   hte/index
 97   i2c
 98   iio/index
 99   infiniband
100   input
101   interconnect
102   ipmb
103   ipmi
 
 
 
 
104   libata
105   mailbox
106   md/index
107   media/index
108   mei/index
109   memory-devices/index
110   message-based
111   misc_devices
112   miscellaneous
113   mmc/index
114   mtd/index
115   mtdnand
116   nfc/index
117   ntb
118   nvdimm/index
119   nvmem
120   parport-lowlevel
121   phy/index
122   pin-control
123   pldmfw/index
124   pps
125   ptp
126   pwm
127   pwrseq
128   regulator
129   reset
130   rfkill
131   s390-drivers
132   scsi
133   serial/index
134   sm501
 
 
 
 
 
 
135   soundwire/index
136   spi
137   surface_aggregator/index
138   switchtec
139   sync_file
140   target
141   tee
142   thermal/index
143   tty/index
144   wbrf
145   wmi
146   xilinx/index
147   zorro
148
149.. only::  subproject and html
150
151   Indices
152   =======
153
154   * :ref:`genindex`

 1========================================
 2The Linux driver implementer's API guide
 3========================================
 
 
 4
 5The kernel offers a wide variety of interfaces to support the development
 6of device drivers.  This document is an only somewhat organized collection
 7of some of those interfaces — it will hopefully get better over time!  The
 8available 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
 
19   pm/index
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
20   device-io
 
21   dma-buf
22   device_link
23   message-based
24   sound
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
25   frame-buffer
26   regulator
 
 
 
 
 
27   iio/index
 
28   input
29   usb/index
30   pci
31   spi
32   i2c
33   hsi
34   edac
35   scsi
36   libata
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
37   mtdnand
38   miscellaneous
39   w1
40   rapidio
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
41   s390-drivers
42   vme
43   80211/index
44   uio-howto
45   firmware/index
46   pinctl
47   gpio/index
48   misc_devices
49   dmaengine/index
50   slimbus
51   soundwire/index
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
52
53.. only::  subproject and html
54
55   Indices
56   =======
57
58   * :ref:`genindex`