1 .. include:: <isonum.txt>
8 :Copyright: |copy| 2015 Stephen Chandler Paul <thatslyude@gmail.com>
16 This module is intended to try to make the lives of input driver developers
17 easier by allowing them to test various serio devices (mainly the various
18 touchpads found on laptops) without having to have the physical device in front
19 of them. userio accomplishes this by allowing any privileged userspace program
20 to directly interact with the kernel's serio driver and control a virtual serio
26 In order to interact with the userio kernel module, one simply opens the
27 /dev/userio character device in their applications. Commands are sent to the
28 kernel module by writing to the device, and any data received from the serio
29 driver is read as-is from the /dev/userio device. All of the structures and
30 macros you need to interact with the device are defined in <linux/userio.h> and
36 The struct used for sending commands to /dev/userio is as follows::
43 ``type`` describes the type of command that is being sent. This can be any one
44 of the USERIO_CMD macros defined in <linux/userio.h>. ``data`` is the argument
45 that goes along with the command. In the event that the command doesn't have an
46 argument, this field can be left untouched and will be ignored by the kernel.
47 Each command should be sent by writing the struct directly to the character
48 device. In the event that the command you send is invalid, an error will be
49 returned by the character device and a more descriptive error will be printed
50 to the kernel log. Only one command can be sent at a time, any additional data
51 written to the character device after the initial command will be ignored.
53 To close the virtual serio port, just close /dev/userio.
61 Registers the port with the serio driver and begins transmitting data back and
62 forth. Registration can only be performed once a port type is set with
63 USERIO_CMD_SET_PORT_TYPE. Has no argument.
65 USERIO_CMD_SET_PORT_TYPE
66 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
68 Sets the type of port we're emulating, where ``data`` is the port type being
69 set. Can be any of the macros from <linux/serio.h>. For example: SERIO_8042
70 would set the port type to be a normal PS/2 port.
72 USERIO_CMD_SEND_INTERRUPT
73 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
75 Sends an interrupt through the virtual serio port to the serio driver, where
76 ``data`` is the interrupt data being sent.
81 The userio userspace tools are able to record PS/2 devices using some of the
82 debugging information from i8042, and play back the devices on /dev/userio. The
83 latest version of these tools can be found at:
85 https://github.com/Lyude/ps2emu