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author | Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> | 2007-10-12 16:11:18 +0200 |
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committer | Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> | 2007-10-12 16:13:00 +0200 |
commit | 3a2fbff228f773e3628bc26a688d40b2214af025 (patch) | |
tree | 9857f06d6ba4c756900033de2539934be0159b0d | |
parent | b2ffd8e9a76ec90bd4a509f3d092e35978c568a3 (diff) | |
download | blackbird-op-linux-3a2fbff228f773e3628bc26a688d40b2214af025.tar.gz blackbird-op-linux-3a2fbff228f773e3628bc26a688d40b2214af025.zip |
[S390] cio: Add s390-drivers book.
s390-drivers is generated using the docbook comments. It should
eventually supersede Documentation/s390/cds.txt.
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/DocBook/Makefile | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/DocBook/s390-drivers.tmpl | 149 |
2 files changed, 150 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile index 08687e45e19d..1a7f53068ec2 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ DOCBOOKS := wanbook.xml z8530book.xml mcabook.xml videobook.xml \ procfs-guide.xml writing_usb_driver.xml \ kernel-api.xml filesystems.xml lsm.xml usb.xml \ gadget.xml libata.xml mtdnand.xml librs.xml rapidio.xml \ - genericirq.xml + genericirq.xml s390-drivers.xml ### # The build process is as follows (targets): diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/s390-drivers.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/s390-drivers.tmpl new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..254e769282a4 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/s390-drivers.tmpl @@ -0,0 +1,149 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> +<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN" + "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd" []> + +<book id="s390drivers"> + <bookinfo> + <title>Writing s390 channel device drivers</title> + + <authorgroup> + <author> + <firstname>Cornelia</firstname> + <surname>Huck</surname> + <affiliation> + <address> + <email>cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com</email> + </address> + </affiliation> + </author> + </authorgroup> + + <copyright> + <year>2007</year> + <holder>IBM Corp.</holder> + </copyright> + + <legalnotice> + <para> + This documentation is free software; you can redistribute + it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public + License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either + version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later + version. + </para> + + <para> + This program is distributed in the hope that it will be + useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied + warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. + See the GNU General Public License for more details. + </para> + + <para> + You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public + License along with this program; if not, write to the Free + Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, + MA 02111-1307 USA + </para> + + <para> + For more details see the file COPYING in the source + distribution of Linux. + </para> + </legalnotice> + </bookinfo> + +<toc></toc> + + <chapter id="intro"> + <title>Introduction</title> + <para> + This document describes the interfaces available for device drivers that + drive s390 based channel attached devices. This includes interfaces for + interaction with the hardware and interfaces for interacting with the + common driver core. Those interfaces are provided by the s390 common I/O + layer. + </para> + <para> + The document assumes a familarity with the technical terms associated + with the s390 channel I/O architecture. For a description of this + architecture, please refer to the "z/Architecture: Principles of + Operation", IBM publication no. SA22-7832. + </para> + <para> + While most I/O devices on a s390 system are typically driven through the + channel I/O mechanism described here, there are various other methods + (like the diag interface). These are out of the scope of this document. + </para> + <para> + Some additional information can also be found in the kernel source + under Documentation/s390/driver-model.txt. + </para> + </chapter> + <chapter id="ccw"> + <title>The ccw bus</title> + <para> + The ccw bus typically contains the majority of devices available to + a s390 system. Named after the channel command word (ccw), the basic + command structure used to address its devices, the ccw bus contains + so-called channel attached devices. They are addressed via subchannels, + visible on the css bus. A device driver, however, will never interact + with the subchannel directly, but only via the device on the ccw bus, + the ccw device. + </para> + <sect1 id="channelIO"> + <title>I/O functions for channel-attached devices</title> + <para> + Some hardware structures have been translated into C structures for use + by the common I/O layer and device drivers. For more information on + the hardware structures represented here, please consult the Principles + of Operation. + </para> +!Iinclude/asm-s390/cio.h + </sect1> + <sect1 id="ccwdev"> + <title>ccw devices</title> + <para> + Devices that want to initiate channel I/O need to attach to the ccw bus. + Interaction with the driver core is done via the common I/O layer, which + provides the abstractions of ccw devices and ccw device drivers. + </para> + <para> + The functions that initiate or terminate channel I/O all act upon a + ccw device structure. Device drivers must not bypass those functions + or strange side effects may happen. + </para> +!Iinclude/asm-s390/ccwdev.h +!Edrivers/s390/cio/device.c +!Edrivers/s390/cio/device_ops.c + </sect1> + <sect1 id="cmf"> + <title>The channel-measurement facility</title> + <para> + The channel-measurement facility provides a means to collect + measurement data which is made available by the channel subsystem + for each channel attached device. + </para> +!Iinclude/asm-s390/cmb.h +!Edrivers/s390/cio/cmf.c + </sect1> + </chapter> + + <chapter id="ccwgroup"> + <title>The ccwgroup bus</title> + <para> + The ccwgroup bus only contains artificial devices, created by the user. + Many networking devices (e.g. qeth) are in fact composed of several + ccw devices (like read, write and data channel for qeth). The + ccwgroup bus provides a mechanism to create a meta-device which + contains those ccw devices as slave devices and can be associated + with the netdevice. + </para> + <sect1 id="ccwgroupdevices"> + <title>ccw group devices</title> +!Iinclude/asm-s390/ccwgroup.h +!Edrivers/s390/cio/ccwgroup.c + </sect1> + </chapter> + +</book> |