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UIO: Documentation for UIO ioport info handling

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This patch updates UIO documentation with the changes introduced by
previous UIO patch.

Signed-off-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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@ -41,6 +41,12 @@ GPL version 2.
</abstract>
<revhistory>
<revision>
<revnumber>0.6</revnumber>
<date>2008-12-05</date>
<authorinitials>hjk</authorinitials>
<revremark>Added description of portio sysfs attributes.</revremark>
</revision>
<revision>
<revnumber>0.5</revnumber>
<date>2008-05-22</date>
@ -318,6 +324,54 @@ interested in translating it, please email me
offset = N * getpagesize();
</programlisting>
<para>
Sometimes there is hardware with memory-like regions that can not be
mapped with the technique described here, but there are still ways to
access them from userspace. The most common example are x86 ioports.
On x86 systems, userspace can access these ioports using
<function>ioperm()</function>, <function>iopl()</function>,
<function>inb()</function>, <function>outb()</function>, and similar
functions.
</para>
<para>
Since these ioport regions can not be mapped, they will not appear under
<filename>/sys/class/uio/uioX/maps/</filename> like the normal memory
described above. Without information about the port regions a hardware
has to offer, it becomes difficult for the userspace part of the
driver to find out which ports belong to which UIO device.
</para>
<para>
To address this situation, the new directory
<filename>/sys/class/uio/uioX/portio/</filename> was added. It only
exists if the driver wants to pass information about one or more port
regions to userspace. If that is the case, subdirectories named
<filename>port0</filename>, <filename>port1</filename>, and so on,
will appear underneath
<filename>/sys/class/uio/uioX/portio/</filename>.
</para>
<para>
Each <filename>portX/</filename> directory contains three read-only
files that show start, size, and type of the port region:
</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
<filename>start</filename>: The first port of this region.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<filename>size</filename>: The number of ports in this region.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<filename>porttype</filename>: A string describing the type of port.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
</chapter>
@ -355,6 +409,13 @@ mapping you need to fill one of the <varname>uio_mem</varname> structures.
See the description below for details.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<varname>struct uio_port port[ MAX_UIO_PORTS_REGIONS ]</varname>: Required
if you want to pass information about ioports to userspace. For each port
region you need to fill one of the <varname>uio_port</varname> structures.
See the description below for details.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<varname>long irq</varname>: Required. If your hardware generates an
interrupt, it's your modules task to determine the irq number during
@ -448,6 +509,42 @@ Please do not touch the <varname>kobj</varname> element of
<varname>struct uio_mem</varname>! It is used by the UIO framework
to set up sysfs files for this mapping. Simply leave it alone.
</para>
<para>
Sometimes, your device can have one or more port regions which can not be
mapped to userspace. But if there are other possibilities for userspace to
access these ports, it makes sense to make information about the ports
available in sysfs. For each region, you have to set up a
<varname>struct uio_port</varname> in the <varname>port[]</varname> array.
Here's a description of the fields of <varname>struct uio_port</varname>:
</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
<varname>char *porttype</varname>: Required. Set this to one of the predefined
constants. Use <varname>UIO_PORT_X86</varname> for the ioports found in x86
architectures.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<varname>unsigned long start</varname>: Required if the port region is used.
Fill in the number of the first port of this region.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<varname>unsigned long size</varname>: Fill in the number of ports in this
region. If <varname>size</varname> is zero, the region is considered unused.
Note that you <emphasis>must</emphasis> initialize <varname>size</varname>
with zero for all unused regions.
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>
Please do not touch the <varname>portio</varname> element of
<varname>struct uio_port</varname>! It is used internally by the UIO
framework to set up sysfs files for this region. Simply leave it alone.
</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="adding_irq_handler">