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From: "Henrik Rydberg" <rydberg@euromail.se>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se>
Subject: [PATCH] input: Document the bcm5974 driver
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:06:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1240916817-18995-1-git-send-email-rydberg@euromail.se> (raw)

This patch adds documentation for the bcm5974 to Documentation/input/.

Signed-off-by: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se>
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 Documentation/input/bcm5974.txt |   65 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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 create mode 100644 Documentation/input/bcm5974.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/input/bcm5974.txt b/Documentation/input/bcm5974.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6db0763
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/input/bcm5974.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+BCM5974 Driver (bcm5974)
+------------------------
+	Copyright (C) 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 (C) 2008	Scott Shawcroft (scott.shawcroft@gmail.com)
+
+The BCM5974 driver is based on the appletouch driver:
+	Copyright (C) 2001-2004	Greg Kroah-Hartman (greg@kroah.com)
+	Copyright (C) 2005	Johannes Berg (johannes@sipsolutions.net)
+	Copyright (C) 2005	Stelian Pop (stelian@popies.net)
+	Copyright (C) 2005	Frank Arnold (frank@scirocco-5v-turbo.de)
+	Copyright (C) 2005	Peter Osterlund (petero2@telia.com)
+	Copyright (C) 2005	Michael Hanselmann (linux-kernel@hansmi.ch)
+	Copyright (C) 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):
+
+rmmod bcm5974 && sudo modprobe bcm5974 debug=9
+
+tail -f /var/log/debug
+
+rmmod bcm5974 && sudo modprobe bcm5974 debug=0
+
+Trivia
+------
+
+The driver was developed at the ubuntu forums in June 2008 [1], and now has
+a more permanent home at bitmath.org [2].
+
+Links
+-----
+
+[1] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=840040
+[2] http://http://bitmath.org/code/
-- 
1.5.6.3


             reply	other threads:[~2009-04-28 11:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-28 11:06 Henrik Rydberg [this message]
2009-04-28 11:06 ` [PATCH] input: Document the multi-touch (MT) protocol Henrik Rydberg
2009-04-28 23:34   ` Randy Dunlap
2009-04-28 11:49 ` [PATCH] input: Document the bcm5974 driver Niels de Vos
2009-04-28 12:56   ` Henrik Rydberg

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