Documentation/driver-api/infrastructure.rst

File Facts

System

Linux kernel

Corpus path

Documentation/driver-api/infrastructure.rst

Extension

.rst

Size

2029 bytes

Lines

104

Domain

Support Tooling And Documentation

Bucket

Documentation

Inferred role

Support Tooling And Documentation: documentation

Status

atlas-only

Why This File Exists

Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.

• Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.

Dependency Surface

• No C-style include directives detected by the generator.

Detected Declarations

• No top-level syscall, struct, function, initcall, or export declaration detected by the generator.

Annotated Snippet

Device drivers infrastructure
=============================

The Basic Device Driver-Model Structures
----------------------------------------

.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/device.h
   :internal:
   :no-identifiers: device_link_state

.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/device/bus.h
   :identifiers: bus_type bus_notifier_event

.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/device/class.h
   :identifiers: class

.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/device/driver.h
   :identifiers: probe_type device_driver

Device Drivers Base
-------------------

.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/init.c
   :internal:

.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/device/driver.h
   :no-identifiers: probe_type device_driver

.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/driver.c
   :export:

.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/core.c
   :export:

.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/syscore.c
   :export:

.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/device/class.h
   :no-identifiers: class

.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/class.c
   :export:

.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/device/faux.h
   :internal:

.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/faux.c
   :export:

.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/node.c
   :internal:

.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/transport_class.c
   :export:

.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/dd.c
   :export:

.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/platform_device.h
   :internal:

.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/platform.c
   :export:

.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/device/bus.h
   :no-identifiers: bus_type bus_notifier_event

.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/bus.c
   :export:

Annotation

• Atlas domain: Support Tooling And Documentation / Documentation.
• Implementation status: atlas-only.

Implementation Notes

• This generated page is the file-by-file coverage layer; curated subsystem chapters should link here when they synthesize a multi-file control flow.
• Core OS pages should be promoted from atlas-only to deep-reviewed when they explain data structures, invariants, locking, lifecycle, and C implementation snippets.
• Driver-family pages are intentionally pattern-oriented unless they are part of the selected PCIe/NVMe representative device path.