Topics

Here is a list of all topics with brief descriptions:

Implementation internals	Various functions commmon to all probing modules
Hardware abstraction (HAL) information
Bus scanning code
ISA	ISA bus scan functions
ISA PnP	ISA PnP scan functions
PCI	PCI bus scan functions
PCMCIA (via SysFS)	PCMCIA bus scan functions
SBUS (Sparc)	ISA bus scan functions
Universal Serial Bus (USB)	USB scan functions
Device handling
Block devices	Block device functions
Braille devices	Braille displays functions
Framebuffer devices	Scan framebuffer devices
Floppy devices	This should currently be called before scan_misc() so we can try to get the floppy controller resources in scan_misc() by actually accessing the floppy drive
Input devices	Input device scan functions
ISDN devices	ISDN identify functions
Keyboard devices	Keyboard device functions
Modem devices	Modem detection functions
Mouse devices	Mouse detection
Network devices	Network device scan functions
Parallel port devices	Parallel port device information
PPPoE devices (DSL)	PPPoE devices scan functions
Serial devices	Serial device interface
WLAN devices	WLAN device functions
Information gathering
BIOS information	BIOS information scan
CPU information	CPU detection functions
EDD partition information	EDD disks layout / partition functions
Kernel log information	Kernel log information scan functions
Memory information	Memory information functions
Misc information	Misc information functions
Monitor (DDC) information	Monitor information functions
PROM information (PowerPC)	PowerPC PROM information
S390 information	S390 devices and information functions
System Management BIOS (SMBIOS)	System Management BIOS functions
General system information	Gather general system information
Hardware DB (HDDB)	Hardware DB functions
Hardware scan console output	Hardware scan console output functions
Internal utilities	Internal utility functions
UDI manual hardware	Manual hardware information functions (/var/lib/hardware/udi/)
Public interface
Debug flags	Hd_data_t debug flags
ID macros	Macros to handle device and vendor ids
Device class enums	Device base classes and bus types
General data types	General types used all over the library
Device information structs	Standard device structs, compared to Hardware information
SMBIOS structures	Structures holding decoded SMBIOS information
Hardware information	Some hardware doesn't fit into the hd_t scheme or there is info we gathered during the scan process but that no-one really cares about
Resource structures	Definitions for the various resource types
Misc resource data	Data gathered by the misc module; basically resources from /proc
Driver information	Driver information structures and union
Manual hardware configuration	Handle manually configured hardware (in /var/lib/hardware/)
ISDN interface	Handle ISDN devices