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