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authorStephen Chandler Paul <cpaul@redhat.com>2015-10-24 13:10:29 -0700
committerDmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>2015-10-27 18:55:31 -0700
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parentInput: evdev - add event-mask API (diff)
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Input: add userio module
Debugging input devices, specifically laptop touchpads, can be tricky without having the physical device handy. Here we try to remedy that with userio. This module allows an application to connect to a character device provided by the kernel, and emulate any serio device. In combination with userspace programs that can record PS/2 devices and replay them through the /dev/userio device, this allows developers to debug driver issues on the PS/2 level with devices simply by requesting a recording from the user experiencing the issue without having to have the physical hardware in front of them. Signed-off-by: Stephen Chandler Paul <cpaul@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
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+/*
+ * userio: virtual serio device support
+ * Copyright (C) 2015 Red Hat
+ * Copyright (C) 2015 Lyude (Stephen Chandler Paul) <cpaul@redhat.com>
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+ * under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the
+ * Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
+ * option) any later version.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
+ * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
+ * FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more
+ * details.
+ *
+ * This is the public header used for user-space communication with the userio
+ * driver. __attribute__((__packed__)) is used for all structs to keep ABI
+ * compatibility between all architectures.
+ */
+
+#ifndef _USERIO_H
+#define _USERIO_H
+
+#include <linux/types.h>
+
+enum userio_cmd_type {
+ USERIO_CMD_REGISTER = 0,
+ USERIO_CMD_SET_PORT_TYPE = 1,
+ USERIO_CMD_SEND_INTERRUPT = 2
+};
+
+/*
+ * userio Commands
+ * All commands sent to /dev/userio are encoded using this structure. The type
+ * field should contain a USERIO_CMD* value that indicates what kind of command
+ * is being sent to userio. The data field should contain the accompanying
+ * argument for the command, if there is one.
+ */
+struct userio_cmd {
+ __u8 type;
+ __u8 data;
+} __attribute__((__packed__));
+
+#endif /* !_USERIO_H */