Hi mandeep, THanks for sharing the test code. Its a good starting point without having a physical device or emulating a physical device with Kmalloc and a fake interrupt. Thanks. Nayan On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 11:06 PM, Mandeep Sandhu <mandeepsandhu.chd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> * Main initialization/remove routines >>> */ >>> static int __init uio_dummy_init(void) >>> { >>> printk("uio_dummy_init( )\n" ); >>> uio_dummy_device = platform_device_register_simple("uio_dummy", -1, >>> NULL, 0); > > You also need to register the UIO driver by calling > uio_register_device() after populating your "struct uio_info" > appropriately. > >> >> Why are you using a platform driver and device on x86? That's not going >> to work at all, as your device doesn't have an irq. Please use this on >> a "real" device that has an interrupt assigned to it. > > If it's only for learning purpose, I guess one can skip registering a > IRQ handler and use UIO_IRQ_CUSTOM, right? > > I did something similar for testing a UIO hotplug bug once. I used to > fake an IRQ event from a timer by using uio_event_notify(). > https://github.com/mandeepsandhu/uio-hotplug-test/blob/master/uio_fake_hotplug.c > > Although, I'm not sure if the OP wants to do something similar > > HTH, > -mandeep > > >> >> hope this helps, >> >> greg k-h >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Kernelnewbies mailing list >> Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies