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authorRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>2021-03-02 14:35:16 -0800
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2021-03-08 17:15:36 -0700
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Fix grammar, punctuation, and spelling. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210302223523.20130-2-rdunlap@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Introduction
Architecture
============
-Input subsystem a collection of drivers that is designed to support
+Input subsystem is a collection of drivers that is designed to support
all input devices under Linux. Most of the drivers reside in
drivers/input, although quite a few live in drivers/hid and
drivers/platform.
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ will be available as a character device on major 13, minor 63::
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 13, 63 Mar 28 22:45 mice
-This device usually created automatically by the system. The commands
+This device is usually created automatically by the system. The commands
to create it by hand are::
cd /dev
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ whole suite. It handles all HID devices, and because there is a very
wide variety of them, and because the USB HID specification isn't
simple, it needs to be this big.
-Currently, it handles USB mice, joysticks, gamepads, steering wheels
+Currently, it handles USB mice, joysticks, gamepads, steering wheels,
keyboards, trackballs and digitizers.
However, USB uses HID also for monitor controls, speaker controls, UPSs,
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ events on a read. Their layout is::
};
``time`` is the timestamp, it returns the time at which the event happened.
-Type is for example EV_REL for relative moment, EV_KEY for a keypress or
+Type is for example EV_REL for relative movement, EV_KEY for a keypress or
release. More types are defined in include/uapi/linux/input-event-codes.h.
``code`` is event code, for example REL_X or KEY_BACKSPACE, again a complete