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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 coco/index
85 console
86 crypto/index
87 dmaengine/index
88 dpll
89 edac
90 extcon
91 firmware/index
92 fpga/index
93 frame-buffer
94 aperture
95 generic-counter
96 gpio/index
97 hsi
98 hte/index
99 i2c
100 iio/index
101 infiniband
102 input
103 interconnect
104 ipmb
105 ipmi
106 libata
107 mailbox
108 md/index
109 media/index
110 mei/index
111 memory-devices/index
112 message-based
113 misc_devices
114 miscellaneous
115 mmc/index
116 mtd/index
117 mtdnand
118 nfc/index
119 ntb
120 nvdimm/index
121 nvmem
122 parport-lowlevel
123 phy/index
124 pin-control
125 pldmfw/index
126 pps
127 ptp
128 pwm
129 pwrseq
130 regulator
131 reset
132 rfkill
133 s390-drivers
134 scsi
135 serial/index
136 sm501
137 soundwire/index
138 spi
139 surface_aggregator/index
140 switchtec
141 sync_file
142 target
143 tee
144 thermal/index
145 tty/index
146 wbrf
147 wmi
148 xilinx/index
149 zorro
150
151.. only:: subproject and html
152
153 Indices
154 =======
155
156 * :ref:`genindex`