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Command: driver | Section: 9 | Source: FreeBSD | File: driver.9.gz
DRIVER(9) FreeBSD Kernel Developer's Manual DRIVER(9)
NAME
driver - structure describing a device driver
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/param.h>
#include <sys/kernel.h>
#include <sys/bus.h>
#include <sys/module.h>
static int foo_probe(device_t);
static int foo_attach(device_t);
static int foo_detach(device_t);
static int foo_frob(device_t, int, int);
static int foo_twiddle(device_t, char *);
static device_method_t foo_methods[] = {
/* Methods from the device interface */
DEVMETHOD(device_probe, foo_probe),
DEVMETHOD(device_attach, foo_attach),
DEVMETHOD(device_detach, foo_detach),
/* Methods from the bogo interface */
DEVMETHOD(bogo_frob, foo_frob),
DEVMETHOD(bogo_twiddle, foo_twiddle),
/* Terminate method list */
DEVMETHOD_END
};
static driver_t foo_driver = {
"foo",
foo_methods,
sizeof(struct foo_softc)
};
DRIVER_MODULE(foo, bogo, foo_driver, NULL, NULL);
DESCRIPTION
Each driver in the kernel is described by a driver_t structure. The
structure contains the name of the device, a pointer to a list of
methods, an indication of the kind of device which the driver implements
and the size of the private data which the driver needs to associate with
a device instance. Each driver will implement one or more sets of
methods (called interfaces). The example driver implements the standard
"driver" interface and the fictitious "bogo" interface.
When a driver is registered with the system (by the DRIVER_MODULE macro,
see DRIVER_MODULE(9)), it is added to the list of drivers contained in
the devclass of its parent bus type. For instance all PCI drivers would
be contained in the devclass named "pci" and all ISA drivers would be in
the devclass named "isa". The reason the drivers are not held in the
device object of the parent bus is to handle multiple instances of a
given type of bus. The DRIVER_MODULE macro will also create the devclass
with the name of the driver and can optionally call extra initialisation
code in the driver by specifying an extra module event handler and
argument as the last two arguments.
SEE ALSO
devclass(9), device(9), DEVICE_ATTACH(9), DEVICE_DETACH(9),
DEVICE_IDENTIFY(9), DEVICE_PROBE(9), DEVICE_SHUTDOWN(9), DRIVER_MODULE(9)
HISTORY
The driver framework first appeared in FreeBSD 2.2.7.
AUTHORS
This manual page was written by Doug Rabson.
FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p8 April 19, 2022 FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p8