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| author | Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net> | 2016-12-22 19:20:02 +1000 |
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| committer | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2016-12-22 10:20:02 +0100 |
| commit | 250f600ebb65e6a2d8e9f6e091df653d37ecf905 (patch) | |
| tree | 6990ced634f1f16ae7b2acabb4b157f84c76ad37 | |
| parent | 4050e04b2c3ff2a1ae458089735ff787fadb0038 (diff) | |
hwdb: clarify where to find the modalias and vid/pid information (#4952)
Fixes #4938
| -rw-r--r-- | hwdb/60-keyboard.hwdb | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | hwdb/70-pointingstick.hwdb | 5 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/hwdb/60-keyboard.hwdb b/hwdb/60-keyboard.hwdb index fff3b9a6ea..114d9c6651 100644 --- a/hwdb/60-keyboard.hwdb +++ b/hwdb/60-keyboard.hwdb @@ -18,17 +18,19 @@ # ZZZZ is the bus-id (see /usr/include/linux/input.h BUS_*), YYYY, XXXX and # WWW are the 4-digit hex uppercase vendor, product and version ID and VVVV # is an arbitrary length input-modalias describing the device capabilities. +# The vendor, product and version ID for a device node "eventX" is listed +# in /sys/class/input/eventX/device/id. # # - AT keyboard DMI data matches: # evdev:atkbd:dmi:bvn*:bvr*:bd*:svn<vendor>:pn<product>:pvr* # <vendor> and <product> are the firmware-provided strings -# exported by the kernel DMI modalias. +# exported by the kernel DMI modalias, see /sys/class/dmi/id/modalias # # - Input driver device name and DMI data match: # evdev:name:<input device name>:dmi:bvn*:bvr*:bd*:svn<vendor>:pn* # <input device name> is the name device specified by the # driver, <vendor> is the firmware-provided string exported -# by the kernel DMI modalias. +# by the kernel DMI modalias, see /sys/class/dmi/id/modalias # # Scan codes are specified as: # KEYBOARD_KEY_<hex scan code>=<key code identifier> diff --git a/hwdb/70-pointingstick.hwdb b/hwdb/70-pointingstick.hwdb index 117f99455c..fa23563192 100644 --- a/hwdb/70-pointingstick.hwdb +++ b/hwdb/70-pointingstick.hwdb @@ -18,11 +18,14 @@ # ZZZZ is the bus-id (see /usr/include/linux/input.h BUS_*), YYYY, XXXX and # WWW are the 4-digit hex uppercase vendor, product and version ID and VVVV # is an arbitrary length input-modalias describing the device capabilities. +# The vendor, product and version ID for a device node "eventX" is listed +# in /sys/class/input/eventX/device/id. # # - Input driver device name and DMI data match: # evdev:name:<input device name>:dmi:bvn*:bvr*:bd*:svn<vendor>:pn* # <input device name> is the name device specified by the driver, -# <vendor> is the firmware-provided string from the kernel DMI modalias. +# <vendor> is the firmware-provided string from the kernel DMI modalias, +# see /sys/class/dmi/id/modalias # # To add local entries, create a new file # /etc/udev/hwdb.d/71-pointingstick-local.hwdb |