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diff --git a/Documentation/input/input.txt b/Documentation/input/input.txt index 47137e75fdb8..ff8cea0225f9 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/ - |