Client Driver Documentation¶
This is the documentation for client drivers themselves. Refer to Writing Client Drivers for documentation on how to write client drivers.
The Linux Kernel
7.3.0
Contents
Working with the development community
- Development process
- Submitting patches
- Code of conduct
- Maintainer handbook
- All development-process docs
Internal API manuals
- Core API
- Driver APIs
- General information for driver authors
- Useful support libraries
- Bus-level documentation
- Subsystem-specific APIs
- Linux 802.11 Driver Developer’s Guide
- ACPI Support
- Kernel driver lp855x
- The Common Clk Framework
- Confidential Computing
- Console Drivers
- Crypto Drivers
- DMAEngine documentation
- The Linux kernel dpll subsystem
- Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) Devices
- Extcon Device Subsystem
- Linux Firmware API
- FPGA Subsystem
- Frame Buffer Library
- Managing Ownership of the Framebuffer Aperture
- Generic Counter Interface
- Generic Radix Page Table
- General Purpose Input/Output (GPIO)
- High Speed Synchronous Serial Interface (HSI)
- The Linux Hardware Timestamping Engine (HTE)
- Recoverable Hardware Error Tracking in vmcoreinfo
- I2C and SMBus Subsystem
- Industrial I/O
- InfiniBand and Remote DMA (RDMA) Interfaces
- Input Subsystem
- Generic System Interconnect Subsystem
- IPMB Driver for a Satellite MC
- The Linux IPMI Driver
- The Intel Silicon Security Engine Interface (Intel SSEI)
- libATA Developer’s Guide
- The Common Mailbox Framework
- RAID
- Media subsystem kernel internal API
- Intel(R) Management Engine Interface (Intel(R) MEI)
- Memory Controller drivers
- Message-based devices
- Miscellaneous Devices
- Parallel Port Devices
- 16x50 UART Driver
- Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM)
- MMC/SD/SDIO card support
- Memory Technology Device (MTD)
- MTD NAND Driver Programming Interface
- Near Field Communication
- NTB Drivers
- Non-Volatile Memory Device (NVDIMM)
- NVMEM Subsystem
- PARPORT interface documentation
- Generic PHY Framework
- PINCTRL (PIN CONTROL) subsystem
- PLDM Firmware Flash Update Library
- PPS - Pulse Per Second
- PTP hardware clock infrastructure for Linux
- Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) interface
- Power Sequencing API
- Voltage and current regulator API
- Reset controller API
- rfkill - RF kill switch support
- Writing s390 channel device drivers
- SCSI Interfaces Guide
- Support for Serial devices
- SM501 Driver
- SoundWire Documentation
- Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI)
- Surface System Aggregator Module (SSAM)
- Linux Switchtec Support
- Sync File API Guide
- target and iSCSI Interfaces Guide
- TEE (Trusted Execution Environment) driver API
- Thermal
- TTY
- WBRF - Wifi Band RFI Mitigations
- WMI Driver API
- Xilinx FPGA
- Writing Device Drivers for Zorro Devices
- Subsystems
- Locking
Development tools and processes
- Licensing rules
- Writing documentation
- Development tools
- Testing guide
- Hacking guide
- Tracing
- Fault injection
- Livepatching
- Rust
User-oriented documentation
Firmware-related documentation
Architecture-specific documentation
Other documentation
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