Sometimes it is necessary to enable/disable the interrupt of a UIO device
from the userspace part of the driver. With this patch, the UIO kernel driver
can implement an "irqcontrol()" function that does this. Userspace can write
an s32 value to /dev/uioX (usually 0 or 1 to turn the irq off or on). The
UIO core will then call the driver's irqcontrol function.
Signed-off-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Uwe Kleine-König <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@digi.com>
Acked-by: Magnus Damm <damm@igel.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The uio kobject code is "wierd". This patch should hopefully fix it up
to be sane and not leak memory anymore.
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Benedikt Spranger <b.spranger@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This interface allows the ability to write the majority of a driver in
userspace with only a very small shell of a driver in the kernel itself.
It uses a char device and sysfs to interact with a userspace process to
process interrupts and control memory accesses.
See the docbook documentation for more details on how to use this
interface.
From: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Benedikt Spranger <b.spranger@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Uwe Kleine-König