![Mauro Carvalho Chehab](/assets/img/avatar_default.png)
The customer PC hardware can be shipped with lots of different configurations, as vendors use to replace some of the chips on their hardware along the time. All drivers that support such devices are prepared to handle the hardware differences, using their own auto-probing logic. They do it in a way that number of inputs and outputs for a given hardware type doesn't change. Now that we're adding media controller capabilities to those drivers, we need to standardize the number of inputs and outputs for each hardware type, as we want to have a generic function at the V4L2 core that would create the links for the entities that are expected on such hardware. Such standard is already there for tuners, but tuner.h is not the best place to store such data, as we'll need to add definitions also for analog TV demodulators. Also, we'll need a place to put a set of MC handling functions. So, let's create a v4l2-mc.h to store such kind of definitions. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
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<book id="LinuxDriversAPI">
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<bookinfo>
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<title>Linux Device Drivers</title>
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<legalnotice>
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<para>
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This documentation is free software; you can redistribute
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it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
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License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
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version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
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version.
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<para>
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be
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useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
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warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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See the GNU General Public License for more details.
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<para>
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
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License along with this program; if not, write to the Free
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Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
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MA 02111-1307 USA
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</para>
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<para>
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For more details see the file COPYING in the source
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distribution of Linux.
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</para>
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</legalnotice>
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</bookinfo>
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<toc></toc>
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<chapter id="Basics">
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<title>Driver Basics</title>
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<sect1><title>Driver Entry and Exit points</title>
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!Iinclude/linux/init.h
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</sect1>
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<sect1><title>Atomic and pointer manipulation</title>
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!Iarch/x86/include/asm/atomic.h
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</sect1>
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<sect1><title>Delaying, scheduling, and timer routines</title>
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!Iinclude/linux/sched.h
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!Ekernel/sched/core.c
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!Ikernel/sched/cpupri.c
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!Ikernel/sched/fair.c
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!Iinclude/linux/completion.h
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!Ekernel/time/timer.c
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</sect1>
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<sect1><title>Wait queues and Wake events</title>
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!Iinclude/linux/wait.h
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!Ekernel/sched/wait.c
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</sect1>
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<sect1><title>High-resolution timers</title>
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!Iinclude/linux/ktime.h
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!Iinclude/linux/hrtimer.h
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!Ekernel/time/hrtimer.c
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</sect1>
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<sect1><title>Workqueues and Kevents</title>
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!Iinclude/linux/workqueue.h
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!Ekernel/workqueue.c
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</sect1>
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<sect1><title>Internal Functions</title>
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!Ikernel/exit.c
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!Ikernel/signal.c
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!Iinclude/linux/kthread.h
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!Ekernel/kthread.c
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</sect1>
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<sect1><title>Kernel objects manipulation</title>
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!Elib/kobject.c
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</sect1>
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<sect1><title>Kernel utility functions</title>
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!Iinclude/linux/kernel.h
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!Ekernel/printk/printk.c
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!Ekernel/panic.c
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!Ekernel/sys.c
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!Ekernel/rcu/srcu.c
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!Ekernel/rcu/tree.c
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!Ekernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
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!Ekernel/rcu/update.c
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</sect1>
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<sect1><title>Device Resource Management</title>
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!Edrivers/base/devres.c
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</sect1>
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</chapter>
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<chapter id="devdrivers">
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<title>Device drivers infrastructure</title>
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<sect1><title>The Basic Device Driver-Model Structures </title>
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!Iinclude/linux/device.h
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</sect1>
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<sect1><title>Device Drivers Base</title>
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!Idrivers/base/init.c
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!Edrivers/base/driver.c
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!Edrivers/base/core.c
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!Edrivers/base/syscore.c
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!Edrivers/base/class.c
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!Idrivers/base/node.c
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!Edrivers/base/firmware_class.c
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!Edrivers/base/transport_class.c
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attribute_container_add_class_device_adapter
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and attribute_container_classdev_to_container
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exceed allowed 44 characters maximum
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X!Edrivers/base/attribute_container.c
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!Edrivers/base/dd.c
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!Iinclude/linux/platform_device.h
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!Edrivers/base/platform.c
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!Edrivers/base/bus.c
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</sect1>
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<sect1><title>Device Drivers DMA Management</title>
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!Edrivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c
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!Edrivers/dma-buf/fence.c
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!Edrivers/dma-buf/seqno-fence.c
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!Iinclude/linux/fence.h
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!Iinclude/linux/seqno-fence.h
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!Edrivers/dma-buf/reservation.c
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!Iinclude/linux/reservation.h
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!Edrivers/base/dma-coherent.c
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!Edrivers/base/dma-mapping.c
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</sect1>
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<sect1><title>Device Drivers Power Management</title>
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!Edrivers/base/power/main.c
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</sect1>
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<sect1><title>Device Drivers ACPI Support</title>
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X!Edrivers/acpi/sleep/main.c
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X!Edrivers/acpi/sleep/wakeup.c
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X!Edrivers/acpi/motherboard.c
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X!Edrivers/acpi/bus.c
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!Edrivers/acpi/scan.c
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!Idrivers/acpi/scan.c
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</sect1>
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<sect1><title>Device drivers PnP support</title>
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!Idrivers/pnp/core.c
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!Edrivers/pnp/card.c
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!Idrivers/pnp/driver.c
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!Edrivers/pnp/manager.c
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!Edrivers/pnp/support.c
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</sect1>
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<sect1><title>Userspace IO devices</title>
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!Edrivers/uio/uio.c
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!Iinclude/linux/uio_driver.h
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</sect1>
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</chapter>
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<chapter id="parportdev">
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<title>Parallel Port Devices</title>
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!Iinclude/linux/parport.h
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!Edrivers/parport/ieee1284.c
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!Edrivers/parport/share.c
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!Idrivers/parport/daisy.c
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</chapter>
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<chapter id="message_devices">
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<title>Message-based devices</title>
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<sect1><title>Fusion message devices</title>
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!Edrivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c
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!Idrivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c
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!Edrivers/message/fusion/mptscsih.c
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!Idrivers/message/fusion/mptscsih.c
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!Idrivers/message/fusion/mptctl.c
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!Idrivers/message/fusion/mptspi.c
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!Idrivers/message/fusion/mptfc.c
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!Idrivers/message/fusion/mptlan.c
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</sect1>
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</chapter>
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<chapter id="snddev">
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<title>Sound Devices</title>
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!Iinclude/sound/core.h
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!Esound/sound_core.c
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!Iinclude/sound/pcm.h
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!Esound/core/pcm.c
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!Esound/core/device.c
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!Esound/core/info.c
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!Esound/core/rawmidi.c
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!Esound/core/sound.c
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!Esound/core/memory.c
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!Esound/core/pcm_memory.c
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!Esound/core/init.c
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!Esound/core/isadma.c
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!Esound/core/control.c
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!Esound/core/pcm_lib.c
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!Esound/core/hwdep.c
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!Esound/core/pcm_native.c
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!Esound/core/memalloc.c
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X!Isound/sound_firmware.c
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</chapter>
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<chapter id="mediadev">
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<title>Media Devices</title>
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<sect1><title>Video2Linux devices</title>
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!Iinclude/media/tuner.h
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!Iinclude/media/tuner-types.h
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!Iinclude/media/tveeprom.h
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!Iinclude/media/v4l2-async.h
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!Iinclude/media/v4l2-ctrls.h
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!Iinclude/media/v4l2-dv-timings.h
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!Iinclude/media/v4l2-event.h
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!Iinclude/media/v4l2-flash-led-class.h
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!Iinclude/media/v4l2-mc.h
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!Iinclude/media/v4l2-mediabus.h
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!Iinclude/media/v4l2-mem2mem.h
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!Iinclude/media/v4l2-of.h
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!Iinclude/media/v4l2-subdev.h
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!Iinclude/media/videobuf2-core.h
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!Iinclude/media/videobuf2-v4l2.h
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!Iinclude/media/videobuf2-memops.h
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</sect1>
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<sect1><title>Digital TV (DVB) devices</title>
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<sect1><title>Digital TV Common functions</title>
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!Idrivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_math.h
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!Idrivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_ringbuffer.h
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!Idrivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.h
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</sect1>
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<sect1><title>Digital TV Frontend kABI</title>
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!Pdrivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.h Digital TV Frontend
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!Idrivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.h
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</sect1>
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<sect1><title>Digital TV Demux kABI</title>
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!Pdrivers/media/dvb-core/demux.h Digital TV Demux
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<sect1><title>Demux Callback API</title>
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!Pdrivers/media/dvb-core/demux.h Demux Callback
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</sect1>
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!Idrivers/media/dvb-core/demux.h
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</sect1>
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<sect1><title>Digital TV Conditional Access kABI</title>
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!Idrivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_ca_en50221.h
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</sect1>
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</sect1>
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<sect1><title>Remote Controller devices</title>
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!Iinclude/media/rc-core.h
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!Iinclude/media/lirc_dev.h
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</sect1>
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<sect1><title>Media Controller devices</title>
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!Pinclude/media/media-device.h Media Controller
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!Iinclude/media/media-device.h
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!Iinclude/media/media-devnode.h
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!Iinclude/media/media-entity.h
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</sect1>
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</chapter>
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<chapter id="uart16x50">
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<title>16x50 UART Driver</title>
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!Edrivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
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!Edrivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c
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</chapter>
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<chapter id="fbdev">
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<title>Frame Buffer Library</title>
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<para>
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The frame buffer drivers depend heavily on four data structures.
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These structures are declared in include/linux/fb.h. They are
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fb_info, fb_var_screeninfo, fb_fix_screeninfo and fb_monospecs.
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The last three can be made available to and from userland.
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</para>
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<para>
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fb_info defines the current state of a particular video card.
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Inside fb_info, there exists a fb_ops structure which is a
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collection of needed functions to make fbdev and fbcon work.
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fb_info is only visible to the kernel.
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</para>
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<para>
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fb_var_screeninfo is used to describe the features of a video card
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that are user defined. With fb_var_screeninfo, things such as
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depth and the resolution may be defined.
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</para>
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<para>
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The next structure is fb_fix_screeninfo. This defines the
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properties of a card that are created when a mode is set and can't
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be changed otherwise. A good example of this is the start of the
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frame buffer memory. This "locks" the address of the frame buffer
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memory, so that it cannot be changed or moved.
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</para>
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<para>
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The last structure is fb_monospecs. In the old API, there was
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little importance for fb_monospecs. This allowed for forbidden things
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such as setting a mode of 800x600 on a fix frequency monitor. With
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the new API, fb_monospecs prevents such things, and if used
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correctly, can prevent a monitor from being cooked. fb_monospecs
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will not be useful until kernels 2.5.x.
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</para>
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<sect1><title>Frame Buffer Memory</title>
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!Edrivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c
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</sect1>
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<sect1><title>Frame Buffer Console</title>
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X!Edrivers/video/console/fbcon.c
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<sect1><title>Frame Buffer Colormap</title>
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!Edrivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcmap.c
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</sect1>
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drivers/video/fbgen.c has no docs, which stuffs up the sgml. Comment
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<sect1><title>Frame Buffer Generic Functions</title>
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<sect1><title>Frame Buffer Video Mode Database</title>
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!Idrivers/video/fbdev/core/modedb.c
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!Edrivers/video/fbdev/core/modedb.c
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</sect1>
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<sect1><title>Frame Buffer Macintosh Video Mode Database</title>
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!Edrivers/video/fbdev/macmodes.c
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</sect1>
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<sect1><title>Frame Buffer Fonts</title>
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<para>
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Refer to the file lib/fonts/fonts.c for more information.
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</para>
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</chapter>
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<chapter id="input_subsystem">
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<title>Input Subsystem</title>
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<sect1><title>Input core</title>
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!Iinclude/linux/input.h
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!Edrivers/input/input.c
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!Edrivers/input/ff-core.c
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!Edrivers/input/ff-memless.c
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</sect1>
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<sect1><title>Multitouch Library</title>
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!Iinclude/linux/input/mt.h
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!Edrivers/input/input-mt.c
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</sect1>
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<sect1><title>Polled input devices</title>
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!Iinclude/linux/input-polldev.h
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!Edrivers/input/input-polldev.c
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</sect1>
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<sect1><title>Matrix keyboars/keypads</title>
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!Iinclude/linux/input/matrix_keypad.h
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</sect1>
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<sect1><title>Sparse keymap support</title>
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!Iinclude/linux/input/sparse-keymap.h
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!Edrivers/input/sparse-keymap.c
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</sect1>
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</chapter>
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<chapter id="spi">
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<title>Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI)</title>
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<para>
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SPI is the "Serial Peripheral Interface", widely used with
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embedded systems because it is a simple and efficient
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interface: basically a multiplexed shift register.
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Its three signal wires hold a clock (SCK, often in the range
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of 1-20 MHz), a "Master Out, Slave In" (MOSI) data line, and
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a "Master In, Slave Out" (MISO) data line.
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SPI is a full duplex protocol; for each bit shifted out the
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MOSI line (one per clock) another is shifted in on the MISO line.
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Those bits are assembled into words of various sizes on the
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way to and from system memory.
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An additional chipselect line is usually active-low (nCS);
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four signals are normally used for each peripheral, plus
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sometimes an interrupt.
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</para>
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<para>
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The SPI bus facilities listed here provide a generalized
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interface to declare SPI busses and devices, manage them
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according to the standard Linux driver model, and perform
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input/output operations.
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At this time, only "master" side interfaces are supported,
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where Linux talks to SPI peripherals and does not implement
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such a peripheral itself.
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(Interfaces to support implementing SPI slaves would
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necessarily look different.)
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</para>
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<para>
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The programming interface is structured around two kinds of driver,
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and two kinds of device.
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A "Controller Driver" abstracts the controller hardware, which may
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be as simple as a set of GPIO pins or as complex as a pair of FIFOs
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connected to dual DMA engines on the other side of the SPI shift
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register (maximizing throughput). Such drivers bridge between
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whatever bus they sit on (often the platform bus) and SPI, and
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expose the SPI side of their device as a
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<structname>struct spi_master</structname>.
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SPI devices are children of that master, represented as a
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<structname>struct spi_device</structname> and manufactured from
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<structname>struct spi_board_info</structname> descriptors which
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are usually provided by board-specific initialization code.
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A <structname>struct spi_driver</structname> is called a
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"Protocol Driver", and is bound to a spi_device using normal
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driver model calls.
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</para>
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<para>
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The I/O model is a set of queued messages. Protocol drivers
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submit one or more <structname>struct spi_message</structname>
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objects, which are processed and completed asynchronously.
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(There are synchronous wrappers, however.) Messages are
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built from one or more <structname>struct spi_transfer</structname>
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objects, each of which wraps a full duplex SPI transfer.
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A variety of protocol tweaking options are needed, because
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different chips adopt very different policies for how they
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use the bits transferred with SPI.
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</para>
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!Iinclude/linux/spi/spi.h
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!Fdrivers/spi/spi.c spi_register_board_info
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!Edrivers/spi/spi.c
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</chapter>
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<chapter id="i2c">
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<title>I<superscript>2</superscript>C and SMBus Subsystem</title>
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<para>
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I<superscript>2</superscript>C (or without fancy typography, "I2C")
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is an acronym for the "Inter-IC" bus, a simple bus protocol which is
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widely used where low data rate communications suffice.
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Since it's also a licensed trademark, some vendors use another
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name (such as "Two-Wire Interface", TWI) for the same bus.
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I2C only needs two signals (SCL for clock, SDA for data), conserving
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board real estate and minimizing signal quality issues.
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Most I2C devices use seven bit addresses, and bus speeds of up
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to 400 kHz; there's a high speed extension (3.4 MHz) that's not yet
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found wide use.
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I2C is a multi-master bus; open drain signaling is used to
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arbitrate between masters, as well as to handshake and to
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synchronize clocks from slower clients.
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</para>
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<para>
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The Linux I2C programming interfaces support only the master
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side of bus interactions, not the slave side.
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The programming interface is structured around two kinds of driver,
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and two kinds of device.
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An I2C "Adapter Driver" abstracts the controller hardware; it binds
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to a physical device (perhaps a PCI device or platform_device) and
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exposes a <structname>struct i2c_adapter</structname> representing
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each I2C bus segment it manages.
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On each I2C bus segment will be I2C devices represented by a
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<structname>struct i2c_client</structname>. Those devices will
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be bound to a <structname>struct i2c_driver</structname>,
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which should follow the standard Linux driver model.
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(At this writing, a legacy model is more widely used.)
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There are functions to perform various I2C protocol operations; at
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this writing all such functions are usable only from task context.
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</para>
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<para>
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The System Management Bus (SMBus) is a sibling protocol. Most SMBus
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systems are also I2C conformant. The electrical constraints are
|
|
tighter for SMBus, and it standardizes particular protocol messages
|
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and idioms. Controllers that support I2C can also support most
|
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SMBus operations, but SMBus controllers don't support all the protocol
|
|
options that an I2C controller will.
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There are functions to perform various SMBus protocol operations,
|
|
either using I2C primitives or by issuing SMBus commands to
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i2c_adapter devices which don't support those I2C operations.
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</para>
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!Iinclude/linux/i2c.h
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!Fdrivers/i2c/i2c-boardinfo.c i2c_register_board_info
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!Edrivers/i2c/i2c-core.c
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</chapter>
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|
<chapter id="hsi">
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<title>High Speed Synchronous Serial Interface (HSI)</title>
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|
|
<para>
|
|
High Speed Synchronous Serial Interface (HSI) is a
|
|
serial interface mainly used for connecting application
|
|
engines (APE) with cellular modem engines (CMT) in cellular
|
|
handsets.
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|
|
|
HSI provides multiplexing for up to 16 logical channels,
|
|
low-latency and full duplex communication.
|
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</para>
|
|
|
|
!Iinclude/linux/hsi/hsi.h
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!Edrivers/hsi/hsi.c
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</chapter>
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|
|
|
<chapter id="pwm">
|
|
<title>Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM)</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Pulse-width modulation is a modulation technique primarily used to
|
|
control power supplied to electrical devices.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The PWM framework provides an abstraction for providers and consumers
|
|
of PWM signals. A controller that provides one or more PWM signals is
|
|
registered as <structname>struct pwm_chip</structname>. Providers are
|
|
expected to embed this structure in a driver-specific structure. This
|
|
structure contains fields that describe a particular chip.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
A chip exposes one or more PWM signal sources, each of which exposed
|
|
as a <structname>struct pwm_device</structname>. Operations can be
|
|
performed on PWM devices to control the period, duty cycle, polarity
|
|
and active state of the signal.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Note that PWM devices are exclusive resources: they can always only be
|
|
used by one consumer at a time.
|
|
</para>
|
|
!Iinclude/linux/pwm.h
|
|
!Edrivers/pwm/core.c
|
|
</chapter>
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</book>
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