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+Device drivers infrastructure
+=============================
+
+The Basic Device Driver-Model Structures
+----------------------------------------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/device.h
+   :internal:
+
+Device Drivers Base
+-------------------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/init.c
+   :internal:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/driver.c
+   :export:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/core.c
+   :export:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/syscore.c
+   :export:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/class.c
+   :export:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/node.c
+   :internal:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/firmware_class.c
+   :export:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/transport_class.c
+   :export:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/dd.c
+   :export:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/platform_device.h
+   :internal:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/platform.c
+   :export:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/bus.c
+   :export:
+
+Buffer Sharing and Synchronization
+----------------------------------
+
+The dma-buf subsystem provides the framework for sharing buffers for
+hardware (DMA) access across multiple device drivers and subsystems, and
+for synchronizing asynchronous hardware access.
+
+This is used, for example, by drm "prime" multi-GPU support, but is of
+course not limited to GPU use cases.
+
+The three main components of this are: (1) dma-buf, representing a
+sg_table and exposed to userspace as a file descriptor to allow passing
+between devices, (2) fence, which provides a mechanism to signal when
+one device as finished access, and (3) reservation, which manages the
+shared or exclusive fence(s) associated with the buffer.
+
+dma-buf
+~~~~~~~
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c
+   :export:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/dma-buf.h
+   :internal:
+
+reservation
+~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/dma-buf/reservation.c
+   :doc: Reservation Object Overview
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/dma-buf/reservation.c
+   :export:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/reservation.h
+   :internal:
+
+fence
+~~~~~
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/dma-buf/fence.c
+   :export:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/fence.h
+   :internal:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/dma-buf/seqno-fence.c
+   :export:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/seqno-fence.h
+   :internal:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/dma-buf/fence-array.c
+   :export:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/fence-array.h
+   :internal:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/dma-buf/reservation.c
+   :export:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/reservation.h
+   :internal:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/dma-buf/sync_file.c
+   :export:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/sync_file.h
+   :internal:
+
+Device Drivers DMA Management
+-----------------------------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/dma-coherent.c
+   :export:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/dma-mapping.c
+   :export:
+
+Device Drivers Power Management
+-------------------------------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/power/main.c
+   :export:
+
+Device Drivers ACPI Support
+---------------------------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/acpi/scan.c
+   :export:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/acpi/scan.c
+   :internal:
+
+Device drivers PnP support
+--------------------------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/pnp/core.c
+   :internal:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/pnp/card.c
+   :export:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/pnp/driver.c
+   :internal:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/pnp/manager.c
+   :export:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/pnp/support.c
+   :export:
+
+Userspace IO devices
+--------------------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/uio/uio.c
+   :export:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/uio_driver.h
+   :internal:
+