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31.Dd May 16, 2000
32.Dt DRIVER_MODULE 9
33.Os
34.Sh NAME
35.Nm DRIVER_MODULE
36.Nd kernel driver declaration macro
37.Sh SYNOPSIS
38.In sys/param.h
39.In sys/kernel.h
40.In sys/bus.h
41.In sys/module.h
42.Fn DRIVER_MODULE name busname "driver_t driver" "devclass_t devclass" "modeventhand_t evh" "void *arg"
43.Fn MULTI_DRIVER_MODULE name busname "driver_t drivers[]" "devclass_t devclass" "modeventhand_t evh" "void *arg"
44.Sh DESCRIPTION
45The
46.Fn DRIVER_MODULE
47macro declares a kernel driver.
48.Fn DRIVER_MODULE
49expands to the real driver declaration, where the phrase
50.Fa name
51is used as the naming prefix for the driver and its functions.
52Note that it is supplied as plain text, and not a
53.Li char
54or
55.Li char * .
56.Pp
57.Fa busname
58is the parent bus of the driver (PCI, ISA, PPBUS and others), e.g.\&
59.Ql pci ,
60.Ql isa ,
61or
62.Ql ppbus .
63.Pp
64The identifier used in
65.Fn DRIVER_MODULE
66can be different from the driver name.
67Also, the same driver identifier can exist on different busses,
68which is a pretty clean way of making front ends for different cards
69using the same driver on the same or different busses.
70For example, the following is allowed:
71.Pp
72.Fn DRIVER_MODULE foo isa foo_driver foo_devclass NULL NULL ;
73.Pp
74.Fn DRIVER_MODULE foo pci foo_driver foo_devclass NULL NULL ;
75.Pp
76.Fa driver
77is the driver of type
78.Li driver_t ,
79which contains the information about the driver and is therefore one of the
80two most important parts of the call to
81.Fn DRIVER_MODULE .
82.Pp
83The
84.Fa devclass
85argument contains the kernel-internal information about the device,
86which will be used within the kernel driver module.
87.Pp
88The
89.Fa evh
90argument is the event handler which is called when the driver (or module)
91is loaded or unloaded (see
92.Xr module 9 ) .
93.Pp
94The
95.Fa arg
96is unused at this time and should be a
97.Dv NULL
98pointer.
99.Pp
100.Fn MULTI_DRIVER_MODULE
101is a special version of
102.Fn DRIVER_MODULE ,
103which takes a list of drivers instead of a single driver instance.
104.Sh SEE ALSO
105.Xr device 9 ,
106.Xr driver 9 ,
107.Xr module 9
108.Sh AUTHORS
109This manual page was written by
110.An Alexander Langer Aq alex@FreeBSD.org .
111