Especially in embedded devices, you frequently find chips where the irq pin is tied to its own dedicated interrupt line. In such cases, where you can be really sure the interrupt is not shared, we can take the concept of uio_pdrv one step further and use a generic interrupt handler. That's what uio_pdrv_genirq does.

The setup for this driver is the same as described above for uio_pdrv, except that you do not implement an interrupt handler. The .handler element of struct uio_info must remain NULL. The .irq_flags element must not contain IRQF_SHARED.

You will set the .name element of struct platform_device to "uio_pdrv_genirq" to use this driver.

The generic interrupt handler of uio_pdrv_genirq will simply disable the interrupt line using disable_irq_nosync(). After doing its work, userspace can reenable the interrupt by writing 0x00000001 to the UIO device file. The driver already implements an irq_control() to make this possible, you must not implement your own.

Using uio_pdrv_genirq not only saves a few lines of interrupt handler code. You also do not need to know anything about the chip's internal registers to create the kernel part of the driver. All you need to know is the irq number of the pin the chip is connected to.