Linux Input Subsystem kernel API

Table of Contents

• 1. Creating an input device driver
  • 1.1. The simplest example
  • 1.2. What the example does
  • 1.3. dev->open() and dev->close()
  • 1.4. Basic event types
  • 1.5. BITS_TO_LONGS(), BIT_WORD(), BIT_MASK()
  • 1.6. The id* and name fields
  • 1.7. The keycode, keycodemax, keycodesize fields
  • 1.8. dev->getkeycode() and dev->setkeycode()
  • 1.9. Key autorepeat
  • 1.10. Other event types, handling output events
• 2. Programming gameport drivers
  • 2.1. A basic classic gameport
  • 2.2. Memory mapped gameport
  • 2.3. Cooked mode gameport
  • 2.4. More complex gameports
  • 2.5. Unregistering a gameport
  • 2.6. The gameport structure
• 3. Keyboard notifier