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Linux Device Drivers Development

You're reading from  Linux Device Drivers Development

Product type Book
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785280009
Pages 586 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
John Madieu John Madieu
Profile icon John Madieu

Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface 1. Introduction to Kernel Development 2. Device Driver Basis 3. Kernel Facilities and Helper Functions 4. Character Device Drivers 5. Platform Device Drivers 6. The Concept of Device Tree 7. I2C Client Drivers 8. SPI Device Drivers 9. Regmap API – A Register Map Abstraction 10. IIO Framework 11. Kernel Memory Management 12. DMA – Direct Memory Access 13. The Linux Device Model 14. Pin Control and GPIO Subsystem 15. GPIO Controller Drivers – gpio_chip 16. Advanced IRQ Management 17. Input Devices Drivers 18. RTC Drivers 19. PWM Drivers 20. Regulator Framework 21. Framebuffer Drivers 22. Network Interface Card Drivers

Input device structures

First of all, the main file to include in order to interface with the input subsystem is linux/input.h:

#include <linux/input.h> 

Whatever type of input device it is, whatever type of event it sends, an input device is represented in the kernel as an instance of struct input_dev:

struct input_dev { 
  const char *name; 
  const char *phys; 
 
  unsigned long evbit[BITS_TO_LONGS(EV_CNT)]; 
  unsigned long keybit[BITS_TO_LONGS(KEY_CNT)]; 
  unsigned long relbit[BITS_TO_LONGS(REL_CNT)]; 
  unsigned long absbit[BITS_TO_LONGS(ABS_CNT)]; 
  unsigned long mscbit[BITS_TO_LONGS(MSC_CNT)]; 
 
  unsigned int repeat_key; 
 
  int rep[REP_CNT]; 
  struct input_absinfo *absinfo; 
  unsigned long key[BITS_TO_LONGS(KEY_CNT)]; 
 
  int (*open)(struct input_dev *dev); 
  void (*close)(struct input_dev *dev); 
 
  unsigned int users; 
  struct device dev; 
 
  unsigned...
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