module_hid_driver(9)

💅 module_hid_driver — like, the manual page, bestie ✨

Okay so you found the man page for module_hid_driver, which lives in the Kernel API Manual (section 9, iykyk) — and honestly? It's a little guy with a big job, so let's get into it 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

module_hid_driver — the helper macro for registering a HID driver. That's it, that's the whole vibe 💖

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

module_hid_driver (__hid_driver );

Literally one argument, she's low maintenance 👑

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• __hid_driver — a hid_driver struct. That's the whole thing, no cap. Hand her the struct and she does the rest 🦋

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

So here's the tea: this is a helper macro for HID drivers that literally do nothing special in module init/exit. Like, if your driver's init and exit are just vibing and doing zero extra work, this macro is your girl 💀

It eliminates a lot of boilerplate — all that copy-paste code you'd otherwise be writing? Gone. Not me being obsessed with a macro, but here we are 🧚

⭐ Important, bestie, fr fr: each module may only use this macro once. One and done. No double-dipping 🙈

And the way that it works: calling it replaces module_init and module_exit. So don't also go calling those yourself — this macro is them now. Main character energy 🌈

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Starting with the kernel file itself: ./include/linux/hid.h — go read it, she's iconic 💜

Then the whole squad:

• HID quirks(9)
• struct hid_battery(9)
• struct hid_driver(9)
• struct hid_ll_driver(9)
• hid_device_io_start(9)
• hid_device_io_stop(9)
• hid_map_usage(9)
• hid_map_usage_clear(9)
• hid_parse(9)
• hid_hw_power(9)
• hid_hw_idle(9)
• hid_hw_may_wakeup(9)
• hid_hw_wait(9)
• hid_report_len(9)

Go read them, they all ate 💅✨

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And that's the page! Signing off from the ./include/linux directory, Kernel API Manual edition, dated October 2026 — catch you in the next man page, bestie 🎀🦋💖