RTEMS | iospace: Add iospace driver (!1243)

Gedare Bloom (@gedare) gitlab at rtems.org
Tue Jun 2 17:07:09 UTC 2026




Gedare Bloom started a new discussion on cpukit/include/dev/io/iodev.h: https://gitlab.rtems.org/rtems/rtos/rtems/-/merge_requests/1243#note_151569

 > +   */
 > +  rtems_recursive_mutex mutex;
 > +};
 > +
 > +/**
 > + * @brief Allocate and initialize the iodev device.
 > + *
 > + * After a successful allocation and initialization of the iodev device
 > + * it must be destroyed via rtems_iodev_destroy_and_free().
 > + *
 > + * @param[in] size The number of bytes to allocate.
 > + *
 > + * @retval NULL Failed to set up iodev device.
 > + * @retval non-NULL The new iodev device.
 > + */
 > +rtems_iodev *rtems_iodev_alloc_and_init( size_t size );

What's the purpose of having these combined, while still allowing a separated `init` (but not `alloc`)?

In other RTEMS APIs we usually have `create` for allocation (and `construct` for user-supplied storage), although that might be for workspace allocated objects.

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