Documentation/input/input.rst
Source file repositories/reference/linux-study-clean/Documentation/input/input.rst
File Facts
- System
- Linux kernel
- Corpus path
Documentation/input/input.rst- Extension
.rst- Size
- 9141 bytes
- Lines
- 282
- Domain
- Support Tooling And Documentation
- Bucket
- Documentation
- Inferred role
- Support Tooling And Documentation: documentation
- Status
- atlas-only
Why This File Exists
Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.
- Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.
- Defines or uses C structs; map object ownership, embedded links, reference counts, and lock ownership.
Dependency Surface
- No C-style include directives detected by the generator.
Detected Declarations
struct input_event
Annotated Snippet
struct input_event {
struct timeval time;
unsigned short type;
unsigned short code;
int value;
};
``time`` is the timestamp, it returns the time at which the event happened.
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
list is in include/uapi/linux/input-event-codes.h.
``value`` is the value the event carries. Either a relative change for
EV_REL, absolute new value for EV_ABS (joysticks ...), or 0 for EV_KEY for
release, 1 for keypress and 2 for autorepeat.
See :ref:`input-event-codes` for more information about various event codes.Annotation
- Detected declarations: `struct input_event`.
- Atlas domain: Support Tooling And Documentation / Documentation.
- Implementation status: atlas-only.
Implementation Notes
- This generated page is the file-by-file coverage layer; curated subsystem chapters should link here when they synthesize a multi-file control flow.
- Core OS pages should be promoted from atlas-only to deep-reviewed when they explain data structures, invariants, locking, lifecycle, and C implementation snippets.
- Driver-family pages are intentionally pattern-oriented unless they are part of the selected PCIe/NVMe representative device path.