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@@ -510,6 +510,18 @@ interrupts from userspace by writing to <filename>/dev/uioX</filename>,
you can implement this function. The parameter <varname>irq_on</varname>
will be 0 to disable interrupts and 1 to enable them.
</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+<varname>pgprot_t (*set_pgprot)(struct uio_info *info, unsigned int mem_idx,
+pgprot_t prot)</varname>: Optional. If special flags are required when mapping
+certain hardware regions, then this callback can be used to specify those flags.
+The default flags are given by the host architecture's definition of
+<function>pgprot_noncached()</function> and are passed to the callback as the
+<varname>prot</varname> parameter, but the return value is what is used for the
+resulting mapping. Note that this callback is only used by the built in mapping
+logic (when the <function>mmap()</function> callback has not been set), and then
+only for UIO_MEM_PHYS regions.
+</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>