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Linux Device Drivers Development

You're reading from  Linux Device Drivers Development

Product type Book
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785280009
Pages 586 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
John Madieu John Madieu
Profile icon John Madieu

Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface 1. Introduction to Kernel Development 2. Device Driver Basis 3. Kernel Facilities and Helper Functions 4. Character Device Drivers 5. Platform Device Drivers 6. The Concept of Device Tree 7. I2C Client Drivers 8. SPI Device Drivers 9. Regmap API – A Register Map Abstraction 10. IIO Framework 11. Kernel Memory Management 12. DMA – Direct Memory Access 13. The Linux Device Model 14. Pin Control and GPIO Subsystem 15. GPIO Controller Drivers – gpio_chip 16. Advanced IRQ Management 17. Input Devices Drivers 18. RTC Drivers 19. PWM Drivers 20. Regulator Framework 21. Framebuffer Drivers 22. Network Interface Card Drivers

PWM controller driver

As you need struct gpio_chip when writing GPIO-controller drivers and struct irq_chip when writing IRQ-controller drivers, a PWM controller is represented in the kernel as an instance of the struct pwm_chip structure:

PWM controller and devices
struct pwm_chip { 
   struct device *dev; 
   const struct pwm_ops *ops; 
   int base; 
   unsigned int npwm; 
 
   struct pwm_device *pwms; 
   struct pwm_device * (*of_xlate)(struct pwm_chip *pc, 
                    const struct of_phandle_args *args); 
   unsigned int of_pwm_n_cells; 
   bool can_sleep; 
}; 

The following is the meaning of each element in the structure:

  • dev: This represents the device associated with this chip.
  • Ops: This is a data structure providing callback functions this chip exposes to consumer drivers.
  • Base: This is the number of the first PWM controlled by this chip. If chip->base...
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