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authorPeter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>2016-12-22 19:20:02 +1000
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2016-12-22 10:20:02 +0100
commit250f600ebb65e6a2d8e9f6e091df653d37ecf905 (patch)
tree6990ced634f1f16ae7b2acabb4b157f84c76ad37 /hwdb
parent4050e04b2c3ff2a1ae458089735ff787fadb0038 (diff)
hwdb: clarify where to find the modalias and vid/pid information (#4952)
Fixes #4938
Diffstat (limited to 'hwdb')
-rw-r--r--hwdb/60-keyboard.hwdb6
-rw-r--r--hwdb/70-pointingstick.hwdb5
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