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authorHans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de>2006-12-07 10:58:29 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2007-07-18 15:57:15 -0700
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UIO: Add the User IO core code
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>
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+menu "Userspace I/O"
+ depends on !S390
+
+config UIO
+ tristate "Userspace I/O drivers"
+ default n
+ help
+ Enable this to allow the userspace driver core code to be
+ built. This code allows userspace programs easy access to
+ kernel interrupts and memory locations, allowing some drivers
+ to be written in userspace. Note that a small kernel driver
+ is also required for interrupt handling to work properly.
+
+ If you don't know what to do here, say N.
+
+endmenu
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