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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2021-04-26 13:22:43 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2021-04-26 13:22:43 -0700 |
commit | 2f9ef0559efbee18a10a3ca26eefe57f69918693 (patch) | |
tree | 3c30d105078c06b51de764e703a59f6ae1c2bb5a /Documentation/driver-api/driver-model | |
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Merge tag 'docs-5.13' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"It's been a relatively busy cycle in docsland, though more than
usually well contained to Documentation/ itself. Highlights include:
- The Chinese translators have been busy and show no signs of
stopping anytime soon. Italian has also caught up.
- Aditya Srivastava has been working on improvements to the
kernel-doc script.
- Thorsten continues his work on reporting-issues.rst and related
documentation around regression reporting.
- Lots of documentation updates, typo fixes, etc. as usual"
* tag 'docs-5.13' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (139 commits)
docs/zh_CN: add openrisc translation to zh_CN index
docs/zh_CN: add openrisc index.rst translation
docs/zh_CN: add openrisc todo.rst translation
docs/zh_CN: add openrisc openrisc_port.rst translation
docs/zh_CN: add core api translation to zh_CN index
docs/zh_CN: add core-api index.rst translation
docs/zh_CN: add core-api irq index.rst translation
docs/zh_CN: add core-api irq irqflags-tracing.rst translation
docs/zh_CN: add core-api irq irq-domain.rst translation
docs/zh_CN: add core-api irq irq-affinity.rst translation
docs/zh_CN: add core-api irq concepts.rst translation
docs: sphinx-pre-install: don't barf on beta Sphinx releases
scripts: kernel-doc: improve parsing for kernel-doc comments syntax
docs/zh_CN: two minor fixes in zh_CN/doc-guide/
Documentation: dev-tools: Add Testing Overview
docs/zh_CN: add translations in zh_CN/dev-tools/gcov
docs: reporting-issues: make people CC the regressions list
MAINTAINERS: add regressions mailing list
doc:it_IT: align Italian documentation
docs/zh_CN: sync reporting-issues.rst
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-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/driver-api/driver-model/class.rst | 149 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/driver-api/driver-model/device.rst | 23 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/driver-api/driver-model/index.rst | 1 |
3 files changed, 17 insertions, 156 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/driver-model/class.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/driver-model/class.rst deleted file mode 100644 index fff55b80e86a..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/driver-api/driver-model/class.rst +++ /dev/null @@ -1,149 +0,0 @@ -============== -Device Classes -============== - -Introduction -~~~~~~~~~~~~ -A device class describes a type of device, like an audio or network -device. The following device classes have been identified: - -<Insert List of Device Classes Here> - - -Each device class defines a set of semantics and a programming interface -that devices of that class adhere to. Device drivers are the -implementation of that programming interface for a particular device on -a particular bus. - -Device classes are agnostic with respect to what bus a device resides -on. - - -Programming Interface -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -The device class structure looks like:: - - - typedef int (*devclass_add)(struct device *); - typedef void (*devclass_remove)(struct device *); - -See the kerneldoc for the struct class. - -A typical device class definition would look like:: - - struct device_class input_devclass = { - .name = "input", - .add_device = input_add_device, - .remove_device = input_remove_device, - }; - -Each device class structure should be exported in a header file so it -can be used by drivers, extensions and interfaces. - -Device classes are registered and unregistered with the core using:: - - int devclass_register(struct device_class * cls); - void devclass_unregister(struct device_class * cls); - - -Devices -~~~~~~~ -As devices are bound to drivers, they are added to the device class -that the driver belongs to. Before the driver model core, this would -typically happen during the driver's probe() callback, once the device -has been initialized. It now happens after the probe() callback -finishes from the core. - -The device is enumerated in the class. Each time a device is added to -the class, the class's devnum field is incremented and assigned to the -device. The field is never decremented, so if the device is removed -from the class and re-added, it will receive a different enumerated -value. - -The class is allowed to create a class-specific structure for the -device and store it in the device's class_data pointer. - -There is no list of devices in the device class. Each driver has a -list of devices that it supports. The device class has a list of -drivers of that particular class. To access all of the devices in the -class, iterate over the device lists of each driver in the class. - - -Device Drivers -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -Device drivers are added to device classes when they are registered -with the core. A driver specifies the class it belongs to by setting -the struct device_driver::devclass field. - - -sysfs directory structure -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -There is a top-level sysfs directory named 'class'. - -Each class gets a directory in the class directory, along with two -default subdirectories:: - - class/ - `-- input - |-- devices - `-- drivers - - -Drivers registered with the class get a symlink in the drivers/ directory -that points to the driver's directory (under its bus directory):: - - class/ - `-- input - |-- devices - `-- drivers - `-- usb:usb_mouse -> ../../../bus/drivers/usb_mouse/ - - -Each device gets a symlink in the devices/ directory that points to the -device's directory in the physical hierarchy:: - - class/ - `-- input - |-- devices - | `-- 1 -> ../../../root/pci0/00:1f.0/usb_bus/00:1f.2-1:0/ - `-- drivers - - -Exporting Attributes -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - -:: - - struct devclass_attribute { - struct attribute attr; - ssize_t (*show)(struct device_class *, char * buf, size_t count, loff_t off); - ssize_t (*store)(struct device_class *, const char * buf, size_t count, loff_t off); - }; - -Class drivers can export attributes using the DEVCLASS_ATTR macro that works -similarly to the DEVICE_ATTR macro for devices. For example, a definition -like this:: - - static DEVCLASS_ATTR(debug,0644,show_debug,store_debug); - -is equivalent to declaring:: - - static devclass_attribute devclass_attr_debug; - -The bus driver can add and remove the attribute from the class's -sysfs directory using:: - - int devclass_create_file(struct device_class *, struct devclass_attribute *); - void devclass_remove_file(struct device_class *, struct devclass_attribute *); - -In the example above, the file will be named 'debug' in placed in the -class's directory in sysfs. - - -Interfaces -~~~~~~~~~~ -There may exist multiple mechanisms for accessing the same device of a -particular class type. Device interfaces describe these mechanisms. - -When a device is added to a device class, the core attempts to add it -to every interface that is registered with the device class. diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/driver-model/device.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/driver-model/device.rst index b9b022371e85..0833be568b06 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-api/driver-model/device.rst +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/driver-model/device.rst @@ -63,8 +63,14 @@ Attributes are declared using a macro called DEVICE_ATTR:: Example::: - static DEVICE_ATTR(type, 0444, show_type, NULL); - static DEVICE_ATTR(power, 0644, show_power, store_power); + static DEVICE_ATTR(type, 0444, type_show, NULL); + static DEVICE_ATTR(power, 0644, power_show, power_store); + +Helper macros are available for common values of mode, so the above examples +can be simplified to::: + + static DEVICE_ATTR_RO(type); + static DEVICE_ATTR_RW(power); This declares two structures of type struct device_attribute with respective names 'dev_attr_type' and 'dev_attr_power'. These two attributes can be @@ -76,19 +82,24 @@ organized as follows into a group:: NULL, }; - static struct attribute_group dev_attr_group = { + static struct attribute_group dev_group = { .attrs = dev_attrs, }; - static const struct attribute_group *dev_attr_groups[] = { - &dev_attr_group, + static const struct attribute_group *dev_groups[] = { + &dev_group, NULL, }; +A helper macro is available for the common case of a single group, so the +above two structures can be declared using::: + + ATTRIBUTE_GROUPS(dev); + This array of groups can then be associated with a device by setting the group pointer in struct device before device_register() is invoked:: - dev->groups = dev_attr_groups; + dev->groups = dev_groups; device_register(dev); The device_register() function will use the 'groups' pointer to create the diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/driver-model/index.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/driver-model/index.rst index 755016422269..4831bdd92e5c 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-api/driver-model/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/driver-model/index.rst @@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ Driver Model binding bus - class design-patterns device devres |