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
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Device Classes
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==============
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Introduction
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~~~~~~~~~~~~
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A device class describes a type of device, like an audio or network
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device. The following device classes have been identified:
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<Insert List of Device Classes Here>
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Each device class defines a set of semantics and a programming interface
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that devices of that class adhere to. Device drivers are the
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implementation of that programming interface for a particular device on
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a particular bus.
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Device classes are agnostic with respect to what bus a device resides
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on.
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Programming Interface
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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The device class structure looks like::
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typedef int (*devclass_add)(struct device *);
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typedef void (*devclass_remove)(struct device *);
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See the kerneldoc for the struct class.
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A typical device class definition would look like::
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struct device_class input_devclass = {
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.name = "input",
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.add_device = input_add_device,
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.remove_device = input_remove_device,
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};
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Each device class structure should be exported in a header file so it
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can be used by drivers, extensions and interfaces.
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Device classes are registered and unregistered with the core using::
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int devclass_register(struct device_class * cls);
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void devclass_unregister(struct device_class * cls);
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Devices
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~~~~~~~
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As devices are bound to drivers, they are added to the device class
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that the driver belongs to. Before the driver model core, this would
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typically happen during the driver's probe() callback, once the device
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has been initialized. It now happens after the probe() callback
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finishes from the core.
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The device is enumerated in the class. Each time a device is added to
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the class, the class's devnum field is incremented and assigned to the
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device. The field is never decremented, so if the device is removed
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from the class and re-added, it will receive a different enumerated
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value.
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The class is allowed to create a class-specific structure for the
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device and store it in the device's class_data pointer.
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There is no list of devices in the device class. Each driver has a
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list of devices that it supports. The device class has a list of
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drivers of that particular class. To access all of the devices in the
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class, iterate over the device lists of each driver in the class.
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Device Drivers
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Device drivers are added to device classes when they are registered
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with the core. A driver specifies the class it belongs to by setting
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the struct device_driver::devclass field.
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sysfs directory structure
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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There is a top-level sysfs directory named 'class'.
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Each class gets a directory in the class directory, along with two
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default subdirectories::
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class/
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`-- input
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|-- devices
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`-- drivers
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Drivers registered with the class get a symlink in the drivers/ directory
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that points to the driver's directory (under its bus directory)::
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class/
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`-- input
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|-- devices
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`-- drivers
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`-- usb:usb_mouse -> ../../../bus/drivers/usb_mouse/
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Each device gets a symlink in the devices/ directory that points to the
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device's directory in the physical hierarchy::
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class/
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`-- input
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|-- devices
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| `-- 1 -> ../../../root/pci0/00:1f.0/usb_bus/00:1f.2-1:0/
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`-- drivers
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Exporting Attributes
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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::
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struct devclass_attribute {
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struct attribute attr;
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ssize_t (*show)(struct device_class *, char * buf, size_t count, loff_t off);
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ssize_t (*store)(struct device_class *, const char * buf, size_t count, loff_t off);
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};
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Class drivers can export attributes using the DEVCLASS_ATTR macro that works
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similarly to the DEVICE_ATTR macro for devices. For example, a definition
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like this::
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static DEVCLASS_ATTR(debug,0644,show_debug,store_debug);
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is equivalent to declaring::
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static devclass_attribute devclass_attr_debug;
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The bus driver can add and remove the attribute from the class's
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sysfs directory using::
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int devclass_create_file(struct device_class *, struct devclass_attribute *);
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void devclass_remove_file(struct device_class *, struct devclass_attribute *);
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In the example above, the file will be named 'debug' in placed in the
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class's directory in sysfs.
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Interfaces
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~~~~~~~~~~
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There may exist multiple mechanisms for accessing the same device of a
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particular class type. Device interfaces describe these mechanisms.
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When a device is added to a device class, the core attempts to add it
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to every interface that is registered with the device class.
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Example:::
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static DEVICE_ATTR(type, 0444, show_type, NULL);
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static DEVICE_ATTR(power, 0644, show_power, store_power);
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static DEVICE_ATTR(type, 0444, type_show, NULL);
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static DEVICE_ATTR(power, 0644, power_show, power_store);
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Helper macros are available for common values of mode, so the above examples
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can be simplified to:::
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static DEVICE_ATTR_RO(type);
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static DEVICE_ATTR_RW(power);
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This declares two structures of type struct device_attribute with respective
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names 'dev_attr_type' and 'dev_attr_power'. These two attributes can be
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NULL,
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};
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static struct attribute_group dev_attr_group = {
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static struct attribute_group dev_group = {
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.attrs = dev_attrs,
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};
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static const struct attribute_group *dev_attr_groups[] = {
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&dev_attr_group,
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static const struct attribute_group *dev_groups[] = {
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&dev_group,
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NULL,
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};
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A helper macro is available for the common case of a single group, so the
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above two structures can be declared using:::
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ATTRIBUTE_GROUPS(dev);
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This array of groups can then be associated with a device by setting the
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group pointer in struct device before device_register() is invoked::
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dev->groups = dev_attr_groups;
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dev->groups = dev_groups;
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device_register(dev);
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The device_register() function will use the 'groups' pointer to create the
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binding
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bus
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class
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design-patterns
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device
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devres
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