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| author | Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@gmail.com> | 2012-11-14 16:59:21 +0100 |
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| committer | Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> | 2012-11-15 10:13:52 +0100 |
| commit | af8036dd749fbf4e732161ff0f3874759b73be40 (patch) | |
| tree | 67968eee829e6dc6c3020400e7501e60808591f2 /Documentation/input | |
| parent | 20b60e6dee316cba4092cc7aef391fc6f4491028 (diff) | |
Input: introduce EV_MSC Timestamp
Some devices provides the actual timestamp (hid_dg_scan_time in win8 ones)
computed by the hardware itself. This value is global to the frame and is
not specific to the multitouch protocol.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se>
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/input')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/input/event-codes.txt | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/input/event-codes.txt b/Documentation/input/event-codes.txt index 53305bd0818..f1ea2c69648 100644 --- a/Documentation/input/event-codes.txt +++ b/Documentation/input/event-codes.txt @@ -196,6 +196,17 @@ EV_MSC: EV_MSC events are used for input and output events that do not fall under other categories. +A few EV_MSC codes have special meaning: + +* MSC_TIMESTAMP: + - Used to report the number of microseconds since the last reset. This event + should be coded as an uint32 value, which is allowed to wrap around with + no special consequence. It is assumed that the time difference between two + consecutive events is reliable on a reasonable time scale (hours). + A reset to zero can happen, in which case the time since the last event is + unknown. If the device does not provide this information, the driver must + not provide it to user space. + EV_LED: ---------- EV_LED events are used for input and output to set and query the state of |