HID: uhid: add internal message buffer

When receiving messages from the HID subsystem, we need to process them
and store them in an internal buffer so user-space can read() on the char
device to retrieve the messages.

This adds a static buffer for 32 messages to each uhid device. Each
message is dynamically allocated so the uhid_device structure does not get
too big.

uhid_queue() adds a message to the buffer. If the buffer is full, the
message is discarded. uhid_queue_event() is an helper for messages without
payload.

This also adds a public header: uhid.h. It contains the declarations for
the user-space API. It is built around "struct uhid_event" which contains
a type field which specifies the event type and each event can then add a
variable-length payload. For now, there is only a dummy event but later
patches will add new event types and payloads.

Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

2 files changed, 34 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/Kbuild b/include/linux/Kbuild
index 01f6362..2d6b7ecb 100644
--- a/include/linux/Kbuild
+++ b/include/linux/Kbuild
@@ -366,6 +366,7 @@ header-y += tty.h
 header-y += types.h
 header-y += udf_fs_i.h
 header-y += udp.h
+header-y += uhid.h
 header-y += uinput.h
 header-y += uio.h
 header-y += ultrasound.h
diff --git a/include/linux/uhid.h b/include/linux/uhid.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..16b786a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/linux/uhid.h
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+#ifndef __UHID_H_
+#define __UHID_H_
+
+/*
+ * User-space I/O driver support for HID subsystem
+ * Copyright (c) 2012 David Herrmann
+ */
+
+/*
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+ * under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
+ * Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option)
+ * any later version.
+ */
+
+/*
+ * Public header for user-space communication. We try to keep every structure
+ * aligned but to be safe we also use __attribute__((__packed__)). Therefore,
+ * the communication should be ABI compatible even between architectures.
+ */
+
+#include <linux/input.h>
+#include <linux/types.h>
+
+enum uhid_event_type {
+	UHID_DUMMY,
+};
+
+struct uhid_event {
+	__u32 type;
+} __attribute__((__packed__));
+
+#endif /* __UHID_H_ */