History log of /linux-master/include/uapi/linux/uinput.h
Revision Date Author Comments
# e2be04c7 01-Nov-2017 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with a license

Many user space API headers have licensing information, which is either
incomplete, badly formatted or just a shorthand for referring to the
license under which the file is supposed to be. This makes it hard for
compliance tools to determine the correct license.

Update these files with an SPDX license identifier. The identifier was
chosen based on the license information in the file.

GPL/LGPL licensed headers get the matching GPL/LGPL SPDX license
identifier with the added 'WITH Linux-syscall-note' exception, which is
the officially assigned exception identifier for the kernel syscall
exception:

NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel
services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use
of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work".

This exception makes it possible to include GPL headers into non GPL
code, without confusing license compliance tools.

Headers which have either explicit dual licensing or are just licensed
under a non GPL license are updated with the corresponding SPDX
identifier and the GPLv2 with syscall exception identifier. The format
is:
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR SPDX-ID-OF-OTHER-LICENSE)

SPDX license identifiers are a legally binding shorthand, which can be
used instead of the full boiler plate text. The update does not remove
existing license information as this has to be done on a case by case
basis and the copyright holders might have to be consulted. This will
happen in a separate step.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne. See the previous patch in this series for the
methodology of how this patch was researched.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# fbae10db 25-Oct-2015 David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>

Input: uinput - rework ABS validation

Rework the uinput ABS validation to check passed absinfo data immediately,
but do ABS initialization as last step in UI_DEV_CREATE. The behavior
observed by user-space is not changed, as ABS initialization was never
checked for errors.

With this in place, the order of device initialization and abs
configuration is no longer fixed. Userspace can initialize the device and
afterwards set absinfo just fine.

Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>


# 052876f8e 18-Dec-2015 Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com>

Input: uinput - add new UINPUT_DEV_SETUP and UI_ABS_SETUP ioctl

This adds two new ioctls, UINPUT_DEV_SETUP and UI_ABS_SETUP, that replaces
the old device setup method (by write()'ing "struct uinput_user_dev" to the
node). The old method is not easily extendable and requires huge payloads.
Furthermore, overloading write() without properly versioned objects is
error-prone.

Therefore, we introduce two new ioctls to replace the old method. These
ioctls support all features of the old method, plus a "resolution" field
for absinfo. Furthermore, it's properly forward-compatible to new ABS codes
and a growing "struct input_absinfo" structure.

UI_ABS_SETUP also allows user-space to skip unknown axes if not set. There
is no need to copy the whole array temporarily into the kernel, but instead
the caller issues several ioctl where we copy each value manually.

Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>


# 029b1836 11-Jan-2015 Gabriel Laskar <gabriel@lse.epita.fr>

Input: uinput - fix ioctl nr overflow for UI_GET_SYSNAME/VERSION

Request number for ioctls are encoded as 8bit numbers, but unfortunately
UI_GET_SYSNAME and UI_GET_VERSION specifu values larger than that, so they
get truncated to 44 (0x2c) and 45 (0x2d). This change makes requested
values match their effective values (the ABI stays intact).

Signed-off-by: Gabriel Laskar <gabriel@lse.epita.fr>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>


# ba4e9a61 20-Jul-2014 David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>

Input: uinput - add UI_GET_VERSION ioctl

This ioctl is the counterpart to EVIOCGVERSION and returns the
uinput-version the kernel was compiled with.

Reviewed-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>


# e3480a61 30-Jan-2014 Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com>

Input: uinput - add UI_GET_SYSNAME ioctl to retrieve the sysfs path

uinput is used in the xorg-integration-tests suite and in the wayland
test suite. These automated tests suites create many virtual input
devices and then hook something to read these newly created devices.

Currently, uinput does not provide the created input device, which means
that we rely on an heuristic to guess which input node was created.
The problem is that is heuristic is subjected to races between different
uinput devices or even with physical devices. Having a way to retrieve
the sysfs path allows us to find without any doubts the event node.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>


# 607ca46e 13-Oct-2012 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/linux

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>