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| author | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> | 2017-04-05 03:51:04 +0300 |
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| committer | Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> | 2017-04-06 01:45:07 +0300 |
| commit | e2ba573120feadfb365467f0cdae2918926efabc (patch) | |
| tree | 0274ef579fcafc4646d0c82eeb4ae826ff61cfbd /Documentation/input/bcm5974.txt | |
| parent | 1ad1473f65da8e61120e8f1b68bc92f2b71ba879 (diff) | |
| download | linux-e2ba573120feadfb365467f0cdae2918926efabc.tar.xz | |
Input: create a book with Linux Input documentation
Now that all files under Documentation/input follows the ReST markup
language, rename them to *.rst and create a book for the Linux Input
subsystem.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
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1 files changed, 0 insertions, 70 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/input/bcm5974.txt b/Documentation/input/bcm5974.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 4aca199b0aa6..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/input/bcm5974.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,70 +0,0 @@ -.. include:: <isonum.txt> - ------------------------- -BCM5974 Driver (bcm5974) ------------------------- - -:Copyright: |copy| 2008-2009 Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se> - -The USB initialization and package decoding was made by Scott Shawcroft as -part of the touchd user-space driver project: - -:Copyright: |copy| 2008 Scott Shawcroft (scott.shawcroft@gmail.com) - -The BCM5974 driver is based on the appletouch driver: - -:Copyright: |copy| 2001-2004 Greg Kroah-Hartman (greg@kroah.com) -:Copyright: |copy| 2005 Johannes Berg (johannes@sipsolutions.net) -:Copyright: |copy| 2005 Stelian Pop (stelian@popies.net) -:Copyright: |copy| 2005 Frank Arnold (frank@scirocco-5v-turbo.de) -:Copyright: |copy| 2005 Peter Osterlund (petero2@telia.com) -:Copyright: |copy| 2005 Michael Hanselmann (linux-kernel@hansmi.ch) -:Copyright: |copy| 2006 Nicolas Boichat (nicolas@boichat.ch) - -This driver adds support for the multi-touch trackpad on the new Apple -Macbook Air and Macbook Pro laptops. It replaces the appletouch driver on -those computers, and integrates well with the synaptics driver of the Xorg -system. - -Known to work on Macbook Air, Macbook Pro Penryn and the new unibody -Macbook 5 and Macbook Pro 5. - -Usage ------ - -The driver loads automatically for the supported usb device ids, and -becomes available both as an event device (/dev/input/event*) and as a -mouse via the mousedev driver (/dev/input/mice). - -USB Race --------- - -The Apple multi-touch trackpads report both mouse and keyboard events via -different interfaces of the same usb device. This creates a race condition -with the HID driver, which, if not told otherwise, will find the standard -HID mouse and keyboard, and claim the whole device. To remedy, the usb -product id must be listed in the mouse_ignore list of the hid driver. - -Debug output ------------- - -To ease the development for new hardware version, verbose packet output can -be switched on with the debug kernel module parameter. The range [1-9] -yields different levels of verbosity. Example (as root):: - - echo -n 9 > /sys/module/bcm5974/parameters/debug - - tail -f /var/log/debug - - echo -n 0 > /sys/module/bcm5974/parameters/debug - -Trivia ------- - -The driver was developed at the ubuntu forums in June 2008 [#f1]_, and now has -a more permanent home at bitmath.org [#f2]_. - -.. Links - -.. [#f1] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=840040 -.. [#f2] http://bitmath.org/code/ |