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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-10-03 16:35:11 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-10-03 16:35:11 -0700 |
commit | 708e16892e1646594a29eaa7ac7b209b600b9fd2 (patch) | |
tree | fe7c31bc0edef84eb1075c7e195340047d6aaa17 /Documentation/input/input.txt | |
parent | f3c87a8999c28f2948ebd407574f7e9fb5c577b2 (diff) | |
parent | a847825970e741e20a09c659978baa34016b63bc (diff) |
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial: (39 commits)
Add missing maintainer countries in CREDITS
Fix bytes <-> kilobytes typo in Kconfig for ramdisk
fix a typo in Documentation/pi-futex.txt
BUG_ON conversion for fs/xfs/
BUG_ON() conversion in fs/nfsd/
BUG_ON conversion for fs/reiserfs
BUG_ON cleanups in arch/i386
BUG_ON cleanup in drivers/net/tokenring/
BUG_ON cleanup for drivers/md/
kerneldoc-typo in led-class.c
debugfs: spelling fix
rcutorture: Fix incorrect description of default for nreaders parameter
parport: Remove space in function calls
Michal Wronski: update contact info
Spelling fix: "control" instead of "cotrol"
reboot parameter in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
Fix copy&waste bug in comment in scripts/kernel-doc
remove duplicate "until" from kernel/workqueue.c
ite_gpio fix tabbage
fix file specification in comments
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Fixed trivial path conflicts due to removed files:
arch/mips/dec/boot/decstation.c, drivers/char/ite_gpio.c
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/input/input.txt')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/input/input.txt | 31 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 26 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/input/input.txt b/Documentation/input/input.txt index 47137e75fdb..ff8cea0225f 100644 --- a/Documentation/input/input.txt +++ b/Documentation/input/input.txt @@ -68,8 +68,8 @@ 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 @@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ 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 @@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ generated in the kernel straight to the program, with timestamps. The API is still evolving, but should be useable 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. @@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ 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, REL_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 +289,3 @@ 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/ - |