Documentation/sound/kernel-api/writing-an-alsa-driver.rst
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File Facts
- System
- Linux kernel
- Corpus path
Documentation/sound/kernel-api/writing-an-alsa-driver.rst- Extension
.rst- Size
- 144823 bytes
- Lines
- 4065
- Domain
- Support Tooling And Documentation
- Bucket
- Documentation
- Inferred role
- Support Tooling And Documentation: operation-table or driver-model contract
- Status
- pattern implementation candidate
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.
- Defines an operation table; this is where Linux turns generic core objects into subsystem-specific behavior.
- Touches user memory; correctness depends on fault-safe copying and privilege boundary handling.
- Uses kernel synchronization; read lock ordering, sleepability, and interrupt context assumptions before translating.
- Touches IRQ or DMA behavior; this matters for the representative real-device path.
- Allocates kernel memory; connect allocation flags and lifetime to context constraints.
- Defines or uses C structs; map object ownership, embedded links, reference counts, and lock ownership.
Dependency Surface
linux/init.hlinux/pci.hlinux/slab.hsound/core.hsound/initval.hsound/pcm.h
Detected Declarations
struct mychipstruct mychipstruct mychipstruct mychipstruct mychipstruct mychipstruct _snd_pcm_runtimestruct mychipfunction snd_mychip_freefunction snd_mychip_createfunction snd_mychip_probefunction snd_mychip_removefunction snd_mychip_removefunction snd_mychip_dev_freefunction snd_mychip_freefunction snd_mychip_createfunction alsa_card_mychip_initfunction alsa_card_mychip_exitfunction snd_mychip_interruptfunction snd_mychip_freefunction alsa_card_mychip_initfunction alsa_card_mychip_exitfunction snd_mychip_playback_openfunction snd_mychip_playback_closefunction snd_mychip_capture_openfunction snd_mychip_capture_closefunction snd_mychip_pcm_hw_paramsfunction snd_mychip_pcm_hw_freefunction snd_mychip_pcm_preparefunction snd_mychip_pcm_triggerfunction snd_mychip_pcm_pointerfunction snd_mychip_new_pcmfunction snd_mychip_new_pcmfunction mychip_pcm_freefunction snd_mychip_new_pcmfunction pointerfunction xxxfunction snd_xxx_openfunction snd_xxx_closefunction snd_xxx_pointerfunction ratefunction snd_mychip_pcm_openfunction snd_pcm_hardwarefunction hw_rule_format_by_channelsfunction capturefunction snd_myctl_enum_infofunction snd_myctl_enum_infofunction snd_myctl_get
Annotated Snippet
- create a struct pci_driver structure
containing the three pointers above.
- create an ``init`` function just calling the
:c:func:`pci_register_driver()` to register the pci_driver
table defined above.
- create an ``exit`` function to call the
:c:func:`pci_unregister_driver()` function.
Full Code Example
-----------------
The code example is shown below. Some parts are kept unimplemented at
this moment but will be filled in the next sections. The numbers in the
comment lines of the :c:func:`snd_mychip_probe()` function refer
to details explained in the following section.
::
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/pci.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <sound/core.h>
#include <sound/initval.h>
/* module parameters (see "Module Parameters") */
/* SNDRV_CARDS: maximum number of cards supported by this module */
static int index[SNDRV_CARDS] = SNDRV_DEFAULT_IDX;
static char *id[SNDRV_CARDS] = SNDRV_DEFAULT_STR;
static bool enable[SNDRV_CARDS] = SNDRV_DEFAULT_ENABLE_PNP;
/* definition of the chip-specific record */
struct mychip {
struct snd_card *card;
/* the rest of the implementation will be in section
* "PCI Resource Management"
*/
};
/* chip-specific destructor
* (see "PCI Resource Management")
*/
static int snd_mychip_free(struct mychip *chip)
{
.... /* will be implemented later... */
}
/* component-destructor
* (see "Management of Cards and Components")
*/
static int snd_mychip_dev_free(struct snd_device *device)
{
return snd_mychip_free(device->device_data);
}
/* chip-specific constructor
* (see "Management of Cards and Components")
*/
static int snd_mychip_create(struct snd_card *card,
struct pci_dev *pci,
struct mychip **rchip)
{
struct mychip *chip;
int err;
static const struct snd_device_ops ops = {
.dev_free = snd_mychip_dev_free,
};
*rchip = NULL;
Annotation
- Immediate include surface: `linux/init.h`, `linux/pci.h`, `linux/slab.h`, `sound/core.h`, `sound/initval.h`, `sound/pcm.h`.
- Detected declarations: `struct mychip`, `struct mychip`, `struct mychip`, `struct mychip`, `struct mychip`, `struct mychip`, `struct _snd_pcm_runtime`, `struct mychip`, `function snd_mychip_free`, `function snd_mychip_create`.
- Atlas domain: Support Tooling And Documentation / Documentation.
- Implementation status: pattern implementation candidate.
- This snippet crosses the user/kernel memory boundary; validate fault handling and access checks before translating the pattern.
- Synchronization appears in or near this file; preserve lock ordering, sleepability, and interrupt-context constraints.
- IRQ or DMA behavior appears here, which is relevant to the selected PCIe/NVMe device path.
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.