2 (c) 2015 Stephen Chandler Paul <thatslyude@gmail.com>
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8 This module is intended to try to make the lives of input driver developers
9 easier by allowing them to test various serio devices (mainly the various
10 touchpads found on laptops) without having to have the physical device in front
11 of them. userio accomplishes this by allowing any privileged userspace program
12 to directly interact with the kernel's serio driver and control a virtual serio
17 In order to interact with the userio kernel module, one simply opens the
18 /dev/userio character device in their applications. Commands are sent to the
19 kernel module by writing to the device, and any data received from the serio
20 driver is read as-is from the /dev/userio device. All of the structures and
21 macros you need to interact with the device are defined in <linux/userio.h> and
26 The struct used for sending commands to /dev/userio is as follows:
33 "type" describes the type of command that is being sent. This can be any one
34 of the USERIO_CMD macros defined in <linux/userio.h>. "data" is the argument
35 that goes along with the command. In the event that the command doesn't have an
36 argument, this field can be left untouched and will be ignored by the kernel.
37 Each command should be sent by writing the struct directly to the character
38 device. In the event that the command you send is invalid, an error will be
39 returned by the character device and a more descriptive error will be printed
40 to the kernel log. Only one command can be sent at a time, any additional data
41 written to the character device after the initial command will be ignored.
42 To close the virtual serio port, just close /dev/userio.
47 4.1 USERIO_CMD_REGISTER
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49 Registers the port with the serio driver and begins transmitting data back and
50 forth. Registration can only be performed once a port type is set with
51 USERIO_CMD_SET_PORT_TYPE. Has no argument.
53 4.2 USERIO_CMD_SET_PORT_TYPE
54 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
55 Sets the type of port we're emulating, where "data" is the port type being
56 set. Can be any of the macros from <linux/serio.h>. For example: SERIO_8042
57 would set the port type to be a normal PS/2 port.
59 4.3 USERIO_CMD_SEND_INTERRUPT
60 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
61 Sends an interrupt through the virtual serio port to the serio driver, where
62 "data" is the interrupt data being sent.
66 The userio userspace tools are able to record PS/2 devices using some of the
67 debugging information from i8042, and play back the devices on /dev/userio. The
68 latest version of these tools can be found at:
70 https://github.com/Lyude/ps2emu