The Kernel Driver API Manual Release 4.13.0 Rc4

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Driver Basics
- Driver Entry and Exit points
- Driver device table
- Atomic and pointer manipulation
- Delaying, scheduling, and timer routines
- Wait queues and Wake events
- High-resolution timers
- Workqueues and Kevents
- Internal Functions
- Kernel objects manipulation
- Kernel utility functions
- Device Resource Management
Device drivers infrastructure
- The Basic Device Driver-Model Structures
- Device Drivers Base
- Device Drivers DMA Management
- Device drivers PnP support
- Userspace IO devices
Device Power Management
- Device Power Management Basics
- Suspend/Hibernation Notifiers
- Device Power Management Data Types
Bus-Independent Device Accesses
- Introduction
- Memory Mapped IO
- Port Space Accesses
- Public Functions Provided
Buffer Sharing and Synchronization
- Shared DMA Buffers
- Reservation Objects
- DMA Fences
Device links
- Usage
- Limitations
- Examples
- Alternatives
- Implementation
- State machine
- API
Message-based devices
- Fusion message devices
Sound Devices
Frame Buffer Library
- Frame Buffer Memory
- Frame Buffer Colormap
- Frame Buffer Video Mode Database
- Frame Buffer Macintosh Video Mode Database
- Frame Buffer Fonts
Voltage and current regulator API
- Introduction
- Consumer driver interface
- Regulator driver interface
- Machine interface
- API reference
Industrial I/O
- Introduction
- Core elements
- Buffers
- Triggers
- Triggered Buffers
Input Subsystem
- Input core
- Multitouch Library
- Polled input devices
- Matrix keyboards/keypads
- Sparse keymap support
Linux USB API
- The Linux-USB Host Side API
- USB Gadget API for Linux
- USB Anchors
- USB bulk streams
- USB core callbacks
- USB DMA
- USB Request Block (URB)
- Power Management for USB
- USB hotplugging
- USB device persistence during system suspend
- USB Error codes
- Writing USB Device Drivers
- Synopsys DesignWare Core SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Controller
- Writing a MUSB Glue Layer
- USB Type-C connector class
- USB3 debug port
PCI Support Library
PCI Hotplug Support Library
Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI)
I2C and SMBus Subsystem
High Speed Synchronous Serial Interface (HSI)
- Introduction
- HSI Subsystem in Linux
- hsi-char Device
- The kernel HSI API
Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) Devices
- Main Concepts used at the EDAC subsystem
- Memory Controllers
- PCI Controllers
- EDAC Blocks
SCSI Interfaces Guide
- Introduction
- SCSI upper layer
- SCSI mid layer
- SCSI lower layer
libATA Developer's Guide
- Introduction
- libata Driver API
- Error handling
- libata Library
- libata Core Internals
- libata SCSI translation/emulation
- ATA errors and exceptions
- ata_piix Internals
- sata_sil Internals
- Thanks
MTD NAND Driver Programming Interface
- Introduction
- Known Bugs And Assumptions
- Documentation hints
- Basic board driver
- Advanced board driver functions
- Filesystem support
- Tools
- Constants
- Structures
- Public Functions Provided
- Internal Functions Provided
- Credits
Parallel Port Devices
16x50 UART Driver
Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM)
W1: Dallas' 1-wire bus
- W1 API internal to the kernel
RapidIO Subsystem Guide
- Introduction
- Known Bugs and Limitations
- RapidIO driver interface
- Internals
- Credits
Writing s390 channel device drivers
- Introduction
- The ccw bus
- The ccwgroup bus
- Generic interfaces
VME Device Drivers
- Driver registration
- Resource management
- Master windows
- Slave windows
- DMA channels
- Interrupts
- Location monitors
- Slot Detection
- Bus Detection
- VME API
Linux 802.11 Driver Developer's Guide
- Introduction
- cfg80211 subsystem
- mac80211 subsystem (basics)
- mac80211 subsystem (advanced)
The Userspace I/O HOWTO
- About this document
- About UIO
- Writing your own kernel module
- Writing a driver in userspace
- Generic PCI UIO driver
- Generic Hyper-V UIO driver
- Further information
Linux Firmware API
- Introduction
- Firmware API core features
- request_firmware API
- Other Firmware Interfaces
PINCTRL (PIN CONTROL) subsystem
- Top-level interface
- Pin groups
- Pin configuration
- Interaction with the GPIO subsystem
- PINMUX interfaces
- What is pinmuxing?
- Pinmux conventions
- Pinmux drivers
- Pin control interaction with the GPIO subsystem
- GPIO mode pitfalls
- Board/machine configuration
- Complex mappings
- Pin control requests from drivers
- Drivers needing both pin control and GPIOs
- System pin control hogging
- Runtime pinmuxing
Miscellaneous Devices
Index

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