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diff --git a/Documentation/hid/hiddev.rst b/Documentation/hid/hiddev.rst index 9b28a97c03e6..9b82c7f896aa 100644 --- a/Documentation/hid/hiddev.rst +++ b/Documentation/hid/hiddev.rst @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Introduction In addition to the normal input type HID devices, USB also uses the human interface device protocols for things that are not really human interfaces, but have similar sorts of communication needs. The two big -examples for this are power devices (especially uninterruptable power +examples for this are power devices (especially uninterruptible power supplies) and monitor control on higher end monitors. To support these disparate requirements, the Linux USB system provides @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ the following:: --> hiddev.c ----> POWER / MONITOR CONTROL In addition, other subsystems (apart from USB) can potentially feed -events into the input subsystem, but these have no effect on the hid +events into the input subsystem, but these have no effect on the HID device interface. Using the HID Device Interface @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ The hiddev API uses a read() interface, and a set of ioctl() calls. HID devices exchange data with the host computer using data bundles called "reports". Each report is divided into "fields", each of which can have one or more "usages". In the hid-core, -each one of these usages has a single signed 32 bit value. +each one of these usages has a single signed 32-bit value. read(): ------- @@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ HIDIOCAPPLICATION - (none) This ioctl call returns the HID application usage associated with the -hid device. The third argument to ioctl() specifies which application +HID device. The third argument to ioctl() specifies which application index to get. This is useful when the device has more than one application collection. If the index is invalid (greater or equal to the number of application collections this device has) the ioctl @@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ looked up by type (input, output or feature) and id, so these fields must be filled in by the user. The ID can be absolute -- the actual report id as reported by the device -- or relative -- HID_REPORT_ID_FIRST for the first report, and (HID_REPORT_ID_NEXT | -report_id) for the next report after report_id. Without a-priori +report_id) for the next report after report_id. Without a priori information about report ids, the right way to use this ioctl is to use the relative IDs above to enumerate the valid IDs. The ioctl returns non-zero when there is no more next ID. The real report ID is @@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ HIDIOCGUCODE - struct hiddev_usage_ref (read/write) Returns the usage_code in a hiddev_usage_ref structure, given that -given its report type, report id, field index, and index within the +its report type, report id, field index, and index within the field have already been filled into the structure. HIDIOCGUSAGE |