tools/virtio/linux/device.h

File Facts

System

Linux kernel

Corpus path

tools/virtio/linux/device.h

Extension

.h

Size

111 bytes

Lines

11

Domain

Support Tooling And Documentation

Bucket

tools

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.
• Defines or uses C structs; map object ownership, embedded links, reference counts, and lock ownership.

Dependency Surface

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

Detected Declarations

• struct device
• struct device_driver

Annotated Snippet

struct device_driver {
	const char *name;
};
#endif

Annotation

• Detected declarations: `struct device`, `struct device_driver`.
• Atlas domain: Support Tooling And Documentation / tools.
• Implementation status: pattern implementation candidate.

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.