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35 .Nm hid_get_report_desc ,
36 .Nm hid_use_report_desc ,
37 .Nm hid_dispose_report_desc ,
44 .Nm hid_usage_in_page ,
45 .Nm hid_parse_usage_page ,
46 .Nm hid_parse_usage_in_page ,
50 .Nd USB HID access routines
56 .Fn hid_get_report_desc "int file"
58 .Fn hid_use_report_desc "unsigned char *data" "unsigned int size"
60 .Fn hid_dispose_report_desc "report_desc_t d"
62 .Fn hid_start_parse "report_desc_t d" "int kindset" "int id"
64 .Fn hid_end_parse "hid_data_t s"
66 .Fn hid_get_item "hid_data_t s" "hid_item_t *h"
68 .Fn hid_report_size "report_desc_t d" "hid_kind_t k" "int id"
70 .Fn hid_locate "report_desc_t d" "u_int usage" "hid_kind_t k" "hid_item_t *h" "int id"
72 .Fn hid_usage_page "int i"
74 .Fn hid_usage_in_page "u_int u"
76 .Fn hid_parse_usage_page "const char *"
78 .Fn hid_parse_usage_in_page "const char *"
80 .Fn hid_init "const char *file"
82 .Fn hid_get_data "const void *data" "const hid_item_t *h"
84 .Fn hid_set_data "void *buf" "const hid_item_t *h" "int data"
88 library provides routines to extract data from USB Human Interface Devices.
90 USB HID devices send and receive data laid out in a device dependent way.
93 library contains routines to extract the
94 .Em "report descriptor"
95 which contains the data layout information and then use this information.
97 The routines can be divided into four parts: extraction of the descriptor,
98 parsing of the descriptor, translating to/from symbolic names, and
100 .Ss Descriptor Functions
101 A report descriptor can be obtained by calling
102 .Fn hid_get_report_desc
103 with a file descriptor obtained by opening a
106 Alternatively a data buffer containing the report descriptor can be
108 .Fn hid_use_report_desc .
109 The data is copied into an internal structure.
110 When the report descriptor
111 is no longer needed it should be freed by calling
112 .Fn hid_dispose_report_desc .
115 is opaque and should be used when calling the parsing functions.
117 .Fn hid_dispose_report_desc
120 .Ss Descriptor Parsing Functions
121 To parse the report descriptor the
123 function should be called with a report descriptor and a set that
124 describes which items that are interesting.
125 The set is obtained by OR-ing together values
131 The report ID (if present) is given by
135 if the initialization fails, otherwise an opaque value to be used
139 function should be called to free internal data structures.
141 To iterate through all the items in the report descriptor
143 should be called while it returns a value greater than 0.
144 When the report descriptor ends it will returns 0; a syntax
145 error within the report descriptor will cause a return value less
147 The struct pointed to by
149 will be filled with the relevant data for the item.
154 and the meaning of the components in the USB HID documentation.
156 Data should be read/written to the device in the size of
158 The size of a report (of a certain kind) can be computed by the
161 If the report is prefixed by an ID byte it is given by
164 To locate a single item the
166 function can be used.
167 It should be given the usage code of
168 the item and its kind and it will fill the item and return
169 non-zero if the item was found.
170 .Ss Name Translation Functions
173 will return the symbolic name of a usage page, and the function
174 .Fn hid_usage_in_page
175 will return the symbolic name of the usage within the page.
176 Both these functions may return a pointer to static data.
179 .Fn hid_parse_usage_page
181 .Fn hid_parse_usage_in_page
185 .Fn hid_usage_in_page .
186 They take a usage string and return the number of the usage, or \-1
187 if it cannot be found.
189 Before any of these functions can be called the usage table
190 must be parsed, this is done by calling
192 with the name of the table.
195 to this function will cause it to use the default table.
196 .Ss Data Extraction Functions
197 Given the data obtained from a HID device and an item in the
198 report descriptor the
200 function extracts the value of the item.
203 can be used to put data into a report (which must be zeroed first).
205 .Bl -tag -width ".Pa /usr/share/misc/usb_hid_usages"
206 .It Pa /usr/share/misc/usb_hid_usages
207 The default HID usage table.
214 specifications can be found at
215 .Pa http://www.usb.org/developers/docs/ .
222 library first appeared in
225 This man page is woefully incomplete.