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authorWanlong Gao <wanlong.gao@gmail.com>2011-05-04 19:55:36 -0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2011-05-06 21:01:05 -0400
commit880ffb5c6c5c8c8c6efd9efe9355317322b4603b (patch)
tree14dcec29fec290e480adec042bfcbb4ede12b005 /include/linux/device.h
parent3ccff540070b5adde7eec443676cfee1dd6b89fd (diff)
driver core: Add the device driver-model structures to kerneldoc
Add the comments to the structure bus_type, device_driver, device, class to device.h for generating the driver-model kerneldoc. With another patch these all removed from the files in Documentation/driver-model/ since they are out of date. That will keep things up to date and provide a better way to document this stuff. Signed-off-by: Wanlong Gao <wanlong.gao@gmail.com> Acked-by: Harry Wei <harryxiyou@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/device.h')
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1 files changed, 151 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h
index 2215d013ca96..42365067a836 100644
--- a/include/linux/device.h
+++ b/include/linux/device.h
@@ -47,6 +47,38 @@ extern int __must_check bus_create_file(struct bus_type *,
47 struct bus_attribute *); 47 struct bus_attribute *);
48extern void bus_remove_file(struct bus_type *, struct bus_attribute *); 48extern void bus_remove_file(struct bus_type *, struct bus_attribute *);
49 49
50/**
51 * struct bus_type - The bus type of the device
52 *
53 * @name: The name of the bus.
54 * @bus_attrs: Default attributes of the bus.
55 * @dev_attrs: Default attributes of the devices on the bus.
56 * @drv_attrs: Default attributes of the device drivers on the bus.
57 * @match: Called, perhaps multiple times, whenever a new device or driver
58 * is added for this bus. It should return a nonzero value if the
59 * given device can be handled by the given driver.
60 * @uevent: Called when a device is added, removed, or a few other things
61 * that generate uevents to add the environment variables.
62 * @probe: Called when a new device or driver add to this bus, and callback
63 * the specific driver's probe to initial the matched device.
64 * @remove: Called when a device removed from this bus.
65 * @shutdown: Called at shut-down time to quiesce the device.
66 * @suspend: Called when a device on this bus wants to go to sleep mode.
67 * @resume: Called to bring a device on this bus out of sleep mode.
68 * @pm: Power management operations of this bus, callback the specific
69 * device driver's pm-ops.
70 * @p: The private data of the driver core, only the driver core can
71 * touch this.
72 *
73 * A bus is a channel between the processor and one or more devices. For the
74 * purposes of the device model, all devices are connected via a bus, even if
75 * it is an internal, virtual, "platform" bus. Buses can plug into each other.
76 * A USB controller is usually a PCI device, for example. The device model
77 * represents the actual connections between buses and the devices they control.
78 * A bus is represented by the bus_type structure. It contains the name, the
79 * default attributes, the bus' methods, PM operations, and the driver core's
80 * private data.
81 */
50struct bus_type { 82struct bus_type {
51 const char *name; 83 const char *name;
52 struct bus_attribute *bus_attrs; 84 struct bus_attribute *bus_attrs;
@@ -119,6 +151,37 @@ extern int bus_unregister_notifier(struct bus_type *bus,
119extern struct kset *bus_get_kset(struct bus_type *bus); 151extern struct kset *bus_get_kset(struct bus_type *bus);
120extern struct klist *bus_get_device_klist(struct bus_type *bus); 152extern struct klist *bus_get_device_klist(struct bus_type *bus);
121 153
154/**
155 * struct device_driver - The basic device driver structure
156 * @name: Name of the device driver.
157 * @bus: The bus which the device of this driver belongs to.
158 * @owner: The module owner.
159 * @mod_name: Used for built-in modules.
160 * @suppress_bind_attrs: Disables bind/unbind via sysfs.
161 * @of_match_table: The open firmware table.
162 * @probe: Called to query the existence of a specific device,
163 * whether this driver can work with it, and bind the driver
164 * to a specific device.
165 * @remove: Called when the device is removed from the system to
166 * unbind a device from this driver.
167 * @shutdown: Called at shut-down time to quiesce the device.
168 * @suspend: Called to put the device to sleep mode. Usually to a
169 * low power state.
170 * @resume: Called to bring a device from sleep mode.
171 * @groups: Default attributes that get created by the driver core
172 * automatically.
173 * @pm: Power management operations of the device which matched
174 * this driver.
175 * @p: Driver core's private data, no one other than the driver
176 * core can touch this.
177 *
178 * The device driver-model tracks all of the drivers known to the system.
179 * The main reason for this tracking is to enable the driver core to match
180 * up drivers with new devices. Once drivers are known objects within the
181 * system, however, a number of other things become possible. Device drivers
182 * can export information and configuration variables that are independent
183 * of any specific device.
184 */
122struct device_driver { 185struct device_driver {
123 const char *name; 186 const char *name;
124 struct bus_type *bus; 187 struct bus_type *bus;
@@ -185,8 +248,34 @@ struct device *driver_find_device(struct device_driver *drv,
185 struct device *start, void *data, 248 struct device *start, void *data,
186 int (*match)(struct device *dev, void *data)); 249 int (*match)(struct device *dev, void *data));
187 250
188/* 251/**
189 * device classes 252 * struct class - device classes
253 * @name: Name of the class.
254 * @owner: The module owner.
255 * @class_attrs: Default attributes of this class.
256 * @dev_attrs: Default attributes of the devices belong to the class.
257 * @dev_bin_attrs: Default binary attributes of the devices belong to the class.
258 * @dev_kobj: The kobject that represents this class and links it into the hierarchy.
259 * @dev_uevent: Called when a device is added, removed from this class, or a
260 * few other things that generate uevents to add the environment
261 * variables.
262 * @devnode: Callback to provide the devtmpfs.
263 * @class_release: Called to release this class.
264 * @dev_release: Called to release the device.
265 * @suspend: Used to put the device to sleep mode, usually to a low power
266 * state.
267 * @resume: Used to bring the device from the sleep mode.
268 * @ns_type: Callbacks so sysfs can detemine namespaces.
269 * @namespace: Namespace of the device belongs to this class.
270 * @pm: The default device power management operations of this class.
271 * @p: The private data of the driver core, no one other than the
272 * driver core can touch this.
273 *
274 * A class is a higher-level view of a device that abstracts out low-level
275 * implementation details. Drivers may see a SCSI disk or an ATA disk, but,
276 * at the class level, they are all simply disks. Classes allow user space
277 * to work with devices based on what they do, rather than how they are
278 * connected or how they work.
190 */ 279 */
191struct class { 280struct class {
192 const char *name; 281 const char *name;
@@ -401,6 +490,65 @@ struct device_dma_parameters {
401 unsigned long segment_boundary_mask; 490 unsigned long segment_boundary_mask;
402}; 491};
403 492
493/**
494 * struct device - The basic device structure
495 * @parent: The device's "parent" device, the device to which it is attached.
496 * In most cases, a parent device is some sort of bus or host
497 * controller. If parent is NULL, the device, is a top-level device,
498 * which is not usually what you want.
499 * @p: Holds the private data of the driver core portions of the device.
500 * See the comment of the struct device_private for detail.
501 * @kobj: A top-level, abstract class from which other classes are derived.
502 * @init_name: Initial name of the device.
503 * @type: The type of device.
504 * This identifies the device type and carries type-specific
505 * information.
506 * @mutex: Mutex to synchronize calls to its driver.
507 * @bus: Type of bus device is on.
508 * @driver: Which driver has allocated this
509 * @platform_data: Platform data specific to the device.
510 * Example: For devices on custom boards, as typical of embedded
511 * and SOC based hardware, Linux often uses platform_data to point
512 * to board-specific structures describing devices and how they
513 * are wired. That can include what ports are available, chip
514 * variants, which GPIO pins act in what additional roles, and so
515 * on. This shrinks the "Board Support Packages" (BSPs) and
516 * minimizes board-specific #ifdefs in drivers.
517 * @power: For device power management.
518 * See Documentation/power/devices.txt for details.
519 * @pwr_domain: Provide callbacks that are executed during system suspend,
520 * hibernation, system resume and during runtime PM transitions
521 * along with subsystem-level and driver-level callbacks.
522 * @numa_node: NUMA node this device is close to.
523 * @dma_mask: Dma mask (if dma'ble device).
524 * @coherent_dma_mask: Like dma_mask, but for alloc_coherent mapping as not all
525 * hardware supports 64-bit addresses for consistent allocations
526 * such descriptors.
527 * @dma_parms: A low level driver may set these to teach IOMMU code about
528 * segment limitations.
529 * @dma_pools: Dma pools (if dma'ble device).
530 * @dma_mem: Internal for coherent mem override.
531 * @archdata: For arch-specific additions.
532 * @of_node: Associated device tree node.
533 * @of_match: Matching of_device_id from driver.
534 * @devt: For creating the sysfs "dev".
535 * @devres_lock: Spinlock to protect the resource of the device.
536 * @devres_head: The resources list of the device.
537 * @knode_class: The node used to add the device to the class list.
538 * @class: The class of the device.
539 * @groups: Optional attribute groups.
540 * @release: Callback to free the device after all references have
541 * gone away. This should be set by the allocator of the
542 * device (i.e. the bus driver that discovered the device).
543 *
544 * At the lowest level, every device in a Linux system is represented by an
545 * instance of struct device. The device structure contains the information
546 * that the device model core needs to model the system. Most subsystems,
547 * however, track additional information about the devices they host. As a
548 * result, it is rare for devices to be represented by bare device structures;
549 * instead, that structure, like kobject structures, is usually embedded within
550 * a higher-level representation of the device.
551 */
404struct device { 552struct device {
405 struct device *parent; 553 struct device *parent;
406 554
@@ -611,7 +759,7 @@ extern int (*platform_notify)(struct device *dev);
611extern int (*platform_notify_remove)(struct device *dev); 759extern int (*platform_notify_remove)(struct device *dev);
612 760
613 761
614/** 762/*
615 * get_device - atomically increment the reference count for the device. 763 * get_device - atomically increment the reference count for the device.
616 * 764 *
617 */ 765 */