Today, userspace sets up an input device based on the data it emits.
This is not always enough; a tablet and a touchscreen may emit exactly
the same data, for instance, but the former should be set up with a
pointer whereas the latter does not need to. Recently, a new type of
touchpad has emerged where the buttons are under the pad, which
changes logic without changing the emitted data. This patch introduces
a new ioctl, EVIOCGPROP, which enables user access to a set of device
properties useful during setup. The properties are given as a bitmap
in the same fashion as the event types, and are also made available
via sysfs, uevent and /proc/bus/input/devices.
Acked-by: Ping Cheng <pingc@wacom.com>
Acked-by: Chase Douglas <chase.douglas@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se>
Recent modprobe and udev versions allow to create device nodes
for modules which are not loaded. Only the first access will cause
the in-kernel module loader to pull-in the module. Systems which
never access the device node will not needlessly load the module,
and no longer need init scripts or other facilities to unconditionally
load it.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
get rid of input BIT* duplicate defines
use newly global defined macros for input layer. Also remove includes of
input.h from non-input sources only for BIT macro definiton. Define the
macro temporarily in local manner, all those local definitons will be
removed further in this patchset (to not break bisecting).
BIT macro will be globally defined (1<<x)
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: <dtor@mail.ru>
Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: <lenb@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Cc: <perex@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Cc: <vernux@us.ibm.com>
Cc: <malattia@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
uinput.h relies on structures found in input.h, so pull in the header
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
The userspace interface of the force feedback part is changed and
documentation in uinput.h is updated accordingly. MODULE_VERSION
is also incremented to reflect the revision.
Signed-off-by: Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
Henrik Rydberg
Kay Sievers
Daniel Mack
Jiri Slaby
Mike Frysinger
Anssi Hannula
Dmitry Torokhov
Linus Torvalds