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32 .Nm hid_get_report_desc ,
33 .Nm hid_use_report_desc ,
34 .Nm hid_dispose_report_desc ,
41 .Nm hid_usage_in_page ,
45 .Nd USB HID access routines
51 .Fn hid_get_report_desc "int file"
53 .Fn hid_use_report_desc "const uint8_t *data" "unsigned int size"
55 .Fn hid_dispose_report_desc "report_desc_t d"
57 .Fn hid_start_parse "report_desc_t d" "int kindset" "int id"
59 .Fn hid_end_parse "hid_data_t s"
61 .Fn hid_get_item "hid_data_t s" "hid_item_t *h"
63 .Fn hid_report_size "report_desc_t d" "hid_kind_t k" "int id"
65 .Fn hid_locate "report_desc_t d" "u_int usage" "hid_kind_t k" "hid_item_t *h" "int id"
67 .Fn hid_usage_page "int i"
69 .Fn hid_usage_in_page "u_int u"
71 .Fn hid_parse_usage_page "const char *"
73 .Fn hid_parse_usage_in_page "const char *"
75 .Fn hid_init "char *file"
77 .Fn hid_get_data "void *data" "hid_item_t *h"
79 .Fn hid_set_data "void *data" "hid_item_t *h" "u_int data"
83 library provides routines to extract data from USB Human Interface Devices.
85 USB HID devices send and receive data laid out in a device dependent way.
88 library contains routines to extract the
90 which contains the data layout information and then use this information.
92 The routines can be divided into four parts: extraction of the descriptor,
93 parsing of the descriptor, translating to/from symbolic names, and
95 .Ss DESCRIPTOR FUNCTIONS
96 A report descriptor can be obtained by calling
97 .Fn hid_get_report_desc
98 with a file descriptor obtained by opening a
101 Alternatively a data buffer containing the report descriptor can be
103 .Fn hid_use_report_desc .
104 The data is copied into an internal structure.
105 When the report descriptor
106 is no longer needed it should be freed by calling
107 .Fn hid_dispose_report_desc .
110 is opaque and should be used when calling the parsing functions.
112 .Fn hid_dispose_report_desc
115 .Ss DESCRIPTOR PARSING FUNCTIONS
116 To parse the report descriptor the
118 function should be called with a report descriptor and a set that
119 describes which items that are interesting.
120 The set is obtained by or-ing together values
121 .Fa "(1 \*[Lt]\*[Lt] k)"
126 The report ID (if present) is given by
130 if the initialization fails, otherwise an opaque value to be used
134 function should be called to free internal data structures.
136 To iterate through all the items in the report descriptor,
138 should be called while it returns a value greater than 0.
139 When the report descriptor ends it will return 0; a syntax
140 error within the report descriptor will cause a return value less
142 The struct pointed to by
144 will be filled with the relevant data for the item.
149 and the meaning of the components in the USB HID documentation.
151 Data should be read/written to the device in the size of
153 The size of a report (of a certain kind) can be computed by the
156 If the report is prefixed by an ID byte it is given by
159 To locate a single item the
161 function can be used.
162 It should be given the usage code of
163 the item and its kind and it will fill the item and return
164 non-zero if the item was found.
165 .Ss NAME TRANSLATION FUNCTIONS
168 will return the symbolic name of a usage page, and the function
169 .Fn hid_usage_in_page
170 will return the symbolic name of the usage within the page.
171 Both these functions may return a pointer to static data.
174 .Fn hid_parse_usage_page
176 .Fn hid_parse_usage_in_page
180 .Fn hid_usage_in_page .
181 They take a usage string and return the number of the usage, or -1
182 if it cannot be found.
184 Before any of these functions can be called the usage table
185 must be parsed, this is done by calling
187 with the name of the table.
190 to this function will cause it to use the default table.
191 .Ss DATA EXTRACTION FUNCTIONS
192 Given the data obtained from a HID device and an item in the
193 report descriptor the
195 function extracts the value of the item.
198 can be used to put data into a report (which must be zeroed first).
200 .Pa /usr/share/misc/usb_hid_usages
201 The default HID usage table.
209 specifications can be found at
210 .Dv http://www.usb.org/developers/docs.html .
214 library first appeared in
224 This man page is woefully incomplete.