From owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Mon Feb 18 17:44:47 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21C2B14E5B2A; Mon, 18 Feb 2019 17:44:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pete@nomadlogic.org) Received: from mail.nomadlogic.org (mail.nomadlogic.org [140.82.23.70]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mail.nomadlogic.org", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E630774CBD; Mon, 18 Feb 2019 17:44:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pete@nomadlogic.org) Received: from duke.gem.co (cpe-23-243-162-239.socal.res.rr.com [23.243.162.239]) by mail.nomadlogic.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id 94afe598 TLS version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO; Mon, 18 Feb 2019 09:44:44 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: What is evdev and autoloading? To: Ian Lepore , sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu Cc: FreeBSD Current , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: <20190217180323.GA95686@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <4135B088-DF13-4867-ABF4-5659D47C8997@yahoo.com> <20190218002455.GA98130@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <221bcaeb995b085058513323980315b68cd3190f.camel@freebsd.org> From: Pete Wright Message-ID: Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 09:44:43 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <221bcaeb995b085058513323980315b68cd3190f.camel@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Language: en-US X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: E630774CBD X-Spamd-Bar: ---- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of pete@nomadlogic.org designates 140.82.23.70 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=pete@nomadlogic.org X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.76 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; RECEIVED_SPAMHAUS_PBL(0.00)[239.162.243.23.zen.spamhaus.org : 127.0.0.10]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[4]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+mx]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; SUBJECT_ENDS_QUESTION(1.00)[]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[nomadlogic.org]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; MX_GOOD(-0.01)[cached: mail.nomadlogic.org]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.96)[-0.963,0]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; IP_SCORE(-2.49)[ip: (-8.77), ipnet: 140.82.16.0/21(-4.39), asn: 20473(0.81), country: US(-0.07)]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:20473, ipnet:140.82.16.0/21, country:US]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2] X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 18:42:37 +0000 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 17:44:47 -0000 On 2/17/19 6:48 PM, Ian Lepore wrote: > > That manpage you found online is in section 4x. It probably gets > installed along with the xf86-input-evdev package. yes - unfortunately that seems to be the only form of man page that exists on the linux side as well.  did a quick search through the linux source and there is unsurprisingly a lack of coherent documentation for the evdev driver there (there is plenty online - wikipedia is a decent starting place). getting a man page is a pretty high priority and should hopefully get sorted out before 12.1-RELEASE is ready...so the system works? lol -pete -- Pete Wright pete@nomadlogic.org @nomadlogicLA