From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
jidanni@jidanni.org, Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 5/8] Documentation: input.txt: clarify mousedev 'cat' command syntax
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:37:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F761979.9030009@xenotime.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F761580.3020807@xenotime.net>
From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Clarify that the 'cat' command does not include the (c, 13, 32)
after it.
Reported-by: jidanni@jidanni.org
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
---
Documentation/input/input.txt | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- lnx-33.orig/Documentation/input/input.txt
+++ lnx-33/Documentation/input/input.txt
@@ -250,8 +250,8 @@ And so on up to event31.
a USB keyboard works and is correctly connected to the kernel keyboard
driver.
- Doing a cat /dev/input/mouse0 (c, 13, 32) will verify that a mouse
-is also emulated, characters should appear if you move it.
+ Doing a "cat /dev/input/mouse0" (c, 13, 32) will verify that a mouse
+is also emulated; characters should appear if you move it.
You can test the joystick emulation with the 'jstest' utility,
available in the joystick package (see Documentation/input/joystick.txt).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-30 20:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2012-03-30 20:37 ` [PATCH 2/8] Documentation: mention scripts/diffconfig tool Randy Dunlap
2012-03-30 20:37 ` [PATCH 3/8] Documentation: sysrq: Crutcher Dunnavant is unavailable Randy Dunlap
2012-03-30 23:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-03-30 20:37 ` [PATCH 4/8] Documentation: CodingStyle: add inline assembly guidelines Randy Dunlap
2012-03-30 20:37 ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2012-03-30 20:37 ` [PATCH 6/8] Documentation: remove references to /etc/modprobe.conf Randy Dunlap
2012-03-30 20:37 ` [PATCH 7/8] Documentation: replace install commands with softdeps Randy Dunlap
2012-03-30 20:37 ` [PATCH 8/8] Documentation: fix typo in ABI/stable/sysfs-driver-usb-usbtmc Randy Dunlap
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