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-rc1
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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