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| author | Russell King <rmk@dyn-67.arm.linux.org.uk> | 2009-05-23 20:57:31 +0100 |
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| committer | Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> | 2009-05-23 20:57:31 +0100 |
| commit | a2ab67fae1ab9226679495a8d260f4e6555efc5f (patch) | |
| tree | f7de683c9c8ff0869a7e11f1d40802145d05f5b4 /Documentation/input/bcm5974.txt | |
| parent | 6d0485a99366d4e0e7e725f14995c74cb7ca4499 (diff) | |
| parent | 135cad366b4e7d6a79f6369f6cb5b721985aa62f (diff) | |
Merge branch 'for-rmk-devel' of git://git.pengutronix.de/git/imx/linux-2.6 into devel
Conflicts:
arch/arm/Kconfig
arch/arm/Makefile
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diff --git a/Documentation/input/bcm5974.txt b/Documentation/input/bcm5974.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..5e22dcf6d48 --- /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): + +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 [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/ |