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diff --git a/Documentation/input/input.txt b/Documentation/input/input.txt index 47137e75fdb..0acfddbe202 100644 --- a/Documentation/input/input.txt +++ b/Documentation/input/input.txt @@ -1,7 +1,6 @@ Linux Input drivers v1.0 (c) 1999-2001 Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@ucw.cz> Sponsored by SuSE - $Id: input.txt,v 1.8 2002/05/29 03:15:01 bradleym Exp $ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0. Disclaimer @@ -68,8 +67,8 @@ will be available as a character device on major 13, minor 63: crw-r--r-- 1 root root 13, 63 Mar 28 22:45 mice - This device has to be created, unless you use devfs, in which case it's -created automatically. The commands to do create it by hand are: + This device has to be created. + The commands to create it by hand are: cd /dev mkdir input @@ -112,7 +111,7 @@ LCDs and many other purposes. The monitor and speaker controls should be easy to add to the hid/input interface, but for the UPSs and LCDs it doesn't make much sense. For this, -the hiddev interface was designed. See Documentation/usb/hiddev.txt +the hiddev interface was designed. See Documentation/hid/hiddev.txt for more information about it. The usage of the usbhid module is very simple, it takes no parameters, @@ -154,7 +153,7 @@ about it. 3.2 Event handlers ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - Event handlers distrubite the events from the devices to userland and + Event handlers distribute the events from the devices to userland and kernel, as needed. 3.2.1 keybdev @@ -227,10 +226,10 @@ And so on up to js31. ~~~~~~~~~~~ evdev is the generic input event interface. It passes the events generated in the kernel straight to the program, with timestamps. The -API is still evolving, but should be useable now. It's described in +API is still evolving, but should be usable now. It's described in section 5. - This should be the way for GPM and X to get keyboard and mouse mouse + This should be the way for GPM and X to get keyboard and mouse events. It allows for multihead in X without any specific multihead kernel support. The event codes are the same on all architectures and are hardware independent. @@ -251,8 +250,8 @@ And so on up to event31. a USB keyboard works and is correctly connected to the kernel keyboard driver. - Doing a cat /dev/input/mouse0 (c, 13, 32) will verify that a mouse -is also emulated, characters should appear if you move it. + Doing a "cat /dev/input/mouse0" (c, 13, 32) will verify that a mouse +is also emulated; characters should appear if you move it. You can test the joystick emulation with the 'jstest' utility, available in the joystick package (see Documentation/input/joystick.txt). @@ -279,7 +278,7 @@ struct input_event { }; 'time' is the timestamp, it returns the time at which the event happened. -Type is for example EV_REL for relative momement, REL_KEY for a keypress or +Type is for example EV_REL for relative moment, EV_KEY for a keypress or release. More types are defined in include/linux/input.h. 'code' is event code, for example REL_X or KEY_BACKSPACE, again a complete @@ -289,24 +288,3 @@ list is in include/linux/input.h. EV_REL, absolute new value for EV_ABS (joysticks ...), or 0 for EV_KEY for release, 1 for keypress and 2 for autorepeat. -6. Contacts -~~~~~~~~~~~ - This effort has its home page at: - - http://www.suse.cz/development/input/ - -You'll find both the latest HID driver and the complete Input driver -there as well as information how to access the CVS repository for -latest revisions of the drivers. - - There is also a mailing list for this: - - majordomo@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz - -Send "subscribe linux-input" to subscribe to it. - -The input changes are also being worked on as part of the LinuxConsole -project, see: - - http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxconsole/ - |