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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
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Introduction to HID report descriptors
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This chapter is meant to give a broad overview of what HID report
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descriptors are, and of how a casual (non-kernel) programmer can deal
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with HID devices that are not working well with Linux.
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.. contents::
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:local:
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:depth: 2
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 2
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hidreport-parsing
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Introduction
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============
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HID stands for Human Interface Device, and can be whatever device you
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are using to interact with a computer, be it a mouse, a touchpad, a
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tablet, a microphone.
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Many HID devices work out the box, even if their hardware is different.
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For example, mice can have any number of buttons; they may have a
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wheel; movement sensitivity differs between different models, and so
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on. Nonetheless, most of the time everything just works, without the
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need to have specialized code in the kernel for every mouse model
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developed since 1970.
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This is because modern HID devices do advertise their capabilities
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through the *HID report descriptor*, a fixed set of bytes describing
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exactly what *HID reports* may be sent between the device and the host
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and the meaning of each individual bit in those reports. For example,
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a HID Report Descriptor may specify that "in a report with ID 3 the
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bits from 8 to 15 is the delta x coordinate of a mouse".
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The HID report itself then merely carries the actual data values
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without any extra meta information. Note that HID reports may be sent
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from the device ("Input Reports", i.e. input events), to the device
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("Output Reports" to e.g. change LEDs) or used for device configuration
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("Feature reports"). A device may support one or more HID reports.
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The HID subsystem is in charge of parsing the HID report descriptors,
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and converts HID events into normal input device interfaces (see
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Documentation/hid/hid-transport.rst). Devices may misbehave because the
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HID report descriptor provided by the device is wrong, or because it
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needs to be dealt with in a special way, or because some special
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device or interaction mode is not handled by the default code.
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The format of HID report descriptors is described by two documents,
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available from the `USB Implementers Forum <https://www.usb.org/>`_
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`HID web page <https://www.usb.org/hid>`_ address:
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* the `HID USB Device Class Definition
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<https://www.usb.org/document-library/device-class-definition-hid-111>`_ (HID Spec from now on)
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* the `HID Usage Tables <https://usb.org/document-library/hid-usage-tables-14>`_ (HUT from now on)
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The HID subsystem can deal with different transport drivers
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(USB, I2C, Bluetooth, etc.). See Documentation/hid/hid-transport.rst.
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Parsing HID report descriptors
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The current list of HID devices can be found at ``/sys/bus/hid/devices/``.
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For each device, say ``/sys/bus/hid/devices/0003\:093A\:2510.0002/``,
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one can read the corresponding report descriptor::
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$ hexdump -C /sys/bus/hid/devices/0003\:093A\:2510.0002/report_descriptor
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00000000 05 01 09 02 a1 01 09 01 a1 00 05 09 19 01 29 03 |..............).|
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00000010 15 00 25 01 75 01 95 03 81 02 75 05 95 01 81 01 |..%.u.....u.....|
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00000020 05 01 09 30 09 31 09 38 15 81 25 7f 75 08 95 03 |...0.1.8..%.u...|
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00000030 81 06 c0 c0 |....|
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00000034
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Optional: the HID report descriptor can be read also by
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directly accessing the hidraw driver [#hidraw]_.
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The basic structure of HID report descriptors is defined in the HID
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spec, while HUT "defines constants that can be interpreted by an
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application to identify the purpose and meaning of a data field in a
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HID report". Each entry is defined by at least two bytes, where the
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first one defines what type of value is following and is described in
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the HID spec, while the second one carries the actual value and is
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described in the HUT.
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HID report descriptors can, in principle, be painstakingly parsed by
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hand, byte by byte.
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A short introduction on how to do this is sketched in
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Documentation/hid/hidreport-parsing.rst; you only need to understand it
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if you need to patch HID report descriptors.
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In practice you should not parse HID report descriptors by hand; rather,
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you should use an existing parser. Among all the available ones
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* the online `USB Descriptor and Request Parser
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<http://eleccelerator.com/usbdescreqparser/>`_;
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* `hidrdd <https://github.com/abend0c1/hidrdd>`_,
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that provides very detailed and somewhat verbose descriptions
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(verbosity can be useful if you are not familiar with HID report
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descriptors);
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* `hid-tools <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libevdev/hid-tools>`_,
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a complete utility set that allows, among other things,
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to record and replay the raw HID reports and to debug
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and replay HID devices.
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It is being actively developed by the Linux HID subsystem maintainers.
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Parsing the mouse HID report descriptor with `hid-tools
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<https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libevdev/hid-tools>`_ leads to
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(explanations interposed)::
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$ ./hid-decode /sys/bus/hid/devices/0003\:093A\:2510.0002/report_descriptor
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# device 0:0
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# 0x05, 0x01, // Usage Page (Generic Desktop) 0
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# 0x09, 0x02, // Usage (Mouse) 2
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# 0xa1, 0x01, // Collection (Application) 4
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# 0x09, 0x01, // Usage (Pointer) 6
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# 0xa1, 0x00, // Collection (Physical) 8
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# 0x05, 0x09, // Usage Page (Button) 10
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what follows is a button ::
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# 0x19, 0x01, // Usage Minimum (1) 12
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# 0x29, 0x03, // Usage Maximum (3) 14
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first button is button number 1, last button is button number 3 ::
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# 0x15, 0x00, // Logical Minimum (0) 16
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# 0x25, 0x01, // Logical Maximum (1) 18
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each button can send values from 0 up to including 1
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(i.e. they are binary buttons) ::
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# 0x75, 0x01, // Report Size (1) 20
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each button is sent as exactly one bit ::
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# 0x95, 0x03, // Report Count (3) 22
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and there are three of those bits (matching the three buttons) ::
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# 0x81, 0x02, // Input (Data,Var,Abs) 24
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it's actual Data (not constant padding), they represent
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a single variable (Var) and their values are Absolute (not relative);
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See HID spec Sec. 6.2.2.5 "Input, Output, and Feature Items" ::
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# 0x75, 0x05, // Report Size (5) 26
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five additional padding bits, needed to reach a byte ::
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# 0x95, 0x01, // Report Count (1) 28
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those five bits are repeated only once ::
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# 0x81, 0x01, // Input (Cnst,Arr,Abs) 30
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and take Constant (Cnst) values i.e. they can be ignored. ::
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# 0x05, 0x01, // Usage Page (Generic Desktop) 32
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# 0x09, 0x30, // Usage (X) 34
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# 0x09, 0x31, // Usage (Y) 36
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# 0x09, 0x38, // Usage (Wheel) 38
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The mouse has also two physical positions (Usage (X), Usage (Y))
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and a wheel (Usage (Wheel)) ::
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# 0x15, 0x81, // Logical Minimum (-127) 40
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# 0x25, 0x7f, // Logical Maximum (127) 42
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each of them can send values ranging from -127 up to including 127 ::
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# 0x75, 0x08, // Report Size (8) 44
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which is represented by eight bits ::
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# 0x95, 0x03, // Report Count (3) 46
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and there are three of those eight bits, matching X, Y and Wheel. ::
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# 0x81, 0x06, // Input (Data,Var,Rel) 48
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This time the data values are Relative (Rel), i.e. they represent
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the change from the previously sent report (event) ::
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# 0xc0, // End Collection 50
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# 0xc0, // End Collection 51
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#
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R: 52 05 01 09 02 a1 01 09 01 a1 00 05 09 19 01 29 03 15 00 25 01 75 01 95 03 81 02 75 05 95 01 81 01 05 01 09 30 09 31 09 38 15 81 25 7f 75 08 95 03 81 06 c0 c0
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N: device 0:0
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I: 3 0001 0001
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This Report Descriptor tells us that the mouse input will be
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transmitted using four bytes: the first one for the buttons (three
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bits used, five for padding), the last three for the mouse X, Y and
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wheel changes, respectively.
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Indeed, for any event, the mouse will send a *report* of four bytes.
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We can check the values sent by resorting e.g. to the `hid-recorder`
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tool, from `hid-tools <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libevdev/hid-tools>`_:
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The sequence of bytes sent by clicking and releasing button 1, then button 2, then button 3 is::
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$ sudo ./hid-recorder /dev/hidraw1
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....
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output of hid-decode
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....
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# Button: 1 0 0 | # | X: 0 | Y: 0 | Wheel: 0
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E: 000000.000000 4 01 00 00 00
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# Button: 0 0 0 | # | X: 0 | Y: 0 | Wheel: 0
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E: 000000.183949 4 00 00 00 00
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# Button: 0 1 0 | # | X: 0 | Y: 0 | Wheel: 0
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E: 000001.959698 4 02 00 00 00
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# Button: 0 0 0 | # | X: 0 | Y: 0 | Wheel: 0
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E: 000002.103899 4 00 00 00 00
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# Button: 0 0 1 | # | X: 0 | Y: 0 | Wheel: 0
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E: 000004.855799 4 04 00 00 00
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# Button: 0 0 0 | # | X: 0 | Y: 0 | Wheel: 0
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E: 000005.103864 4 00 00 00 00
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This example shows that when button 2 is clicked,
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the bytes ``02 00 00 00`` are sent, and the immediately subsequent
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event (``00 00 00 00``) is the release of button 2 (no buttons are
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pressed, remember that the data values are *absolute*).
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If instead one clicks and holds button 1, then clicks and holds button
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2, releases button 1, and finally releases button 2, the reports are::
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# Button: 1 0 0 | # | X: 0 | Y: 0 | Wheel: 0
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E: 000044.175830 4 01 00 00 00
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# Button: 1 1 0 | # | X: 0 | Y: 0 | Wheel: 0
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E: 000045.975997 4 03 00 00 00
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# Button: 0 1 0 | # | X: 0 | Y: 0 | Wheel: 0
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E: 000047.407930 4 02 00 00 00
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# Button: 0 0 0 | # | X: 0 | Y: 0 | Wheel: 0
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E: 000049.199919 4 00 00 00 00
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where with ``03 00 00 00`` both buttons are pressed, and with the
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subsequent ``02 00 00 00`` button 1 is released while button 2 is still
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active.
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Output, Input and Feature Reports
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---------------------------------
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HID devices can have Input Reports, like in the mouse example, Output
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Reports, and Feature Reports. "Output" means that the information is
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sent to the device. For example, a joystick with force feedback will
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have some output; the led of a keyboard would need an output as well.
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"Input" means that data come from the device.
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"Feature"s are not meant to be consumed by the end user and define
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configuration options for the device. They can be queried from the host;
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when declared as *Volatile* they should be changed by the host.
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Collections, Report IDs and Evdev events
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A single device can logically group data into different independent
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sets, called a *Collection*. Collections can be nested and there are
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different types of collections (see the HID spec 6.2.2.6
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"Collection, End Collection Items" for details).
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Different reports are identified by means of different *Report ID*
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fields, i.e. a number identifying the structure of the immediately
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following report.
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Whenever a Report ID is needed it is transmitted as the first byte of
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any report. A device with only one supported HID report (like the mouse
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example above) may omit the report ID.
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Consider the following HID report descriptor::
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05 01 09 02 A1 01 85 01 05 09 19 01 29 05 15 00
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25 01 95 05 75 01 81 02 95 01 75 03 81 01 05 01
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09 30 09 31 16 00 F8 26 FF 07 75 0C 95 02 81 06
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09 38 15 80 25 7F 75 08 95 01 81 06 05 0C 0A 38
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02 15 80 25 7F 75 08 95 01 81 06 C0 05 01 09 02
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A1 01 85 02 05 09 19 01 29 05 15 00 25 01 95 05
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75 01 81 02 95 01 75 03 81 01 05 01 09 30 09 31
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16 00 F8 26 FF 07 75 0C 95 02 81 06 09 38 15 80
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25 7F 75 08 95 01 81 06 05 0C 0A 38 02 15 80 25
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7F 75 08 95 01 81 06 C0 05 01 09 07 A1 01 85 05
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05 07 15 00 25 01 09 29 09 3E 09 4B 09 4E 09 E3
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09 E8 09 E8 09 E8 75 01 95 08 81 02 95 00 81 01
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C0 05 0C 09 01 A1 01 85 06 15 00 25 01 75 01 95
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01 09 3F 81 06 09 3F 81 06 09 3F 81 06 09 3F 81
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06 09 3F 81 06 09 3F 81 06 09 3F 81 06 09 3F 81
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06 C0 05 0C 09 01 A1 01 85 03 09 05 15 00 26 FF
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00 75 08 95 02 B1 02 C0
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After parsing it (try to parse it on your own using the suggested
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tools!) one can see that the device presents two ``Mouse`` Application
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Collections (with reports identified by Reports IDs 1 and 2,
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respectively), a ``Keypad`` Application Collection (whose report is
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identified by the Report ID 5) and two ``Consumer Controls`` Application
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Collections, (with Report IDs 6 and 3, respectively). Note, however,
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that a device can have different Report IDs for the same Application
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Collection.
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The data sent will begin with the Report ID byte, and will be followed
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by the corresponding information. For example, the data transmitted for
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the last consumer control::
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0x05, 0x0C, // Usage Page (Consumer)
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0x09, 0x01, // Usage (Consumer Control)
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0xA1, 0x01, // Collection (Application)
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0x85, 0x03, // Report ID (3)
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0x09, 0x05, // Usage (Headphone)
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0x15, 0x00, // Logical Minimum (0)
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0x26, 0xFF, 0x00, // Logical Maximum (255)
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0x75, 0x08, // Report Size (8)
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0x95, 0x02, // Report Count (2)
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0xB1, 0x02, // Feature (Data,Var,Abs,No Wrap,Linear,Preferred State,No Null Position,Non-volatile)
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0xC0, // End Collection
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will be of three bytes: the first for the Report ID (3), the next two
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for the headphone, with two (``Report Count (2)``) bytes
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(``Report Size (8)``), each ranging from 0 (``Logical Minimum (0)``)
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to 255 (``Logical Maximum (255)``).
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All the Input data sent by the device should be translated into
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corresponding Evdev events, so that the remaining part of the stack can
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know what is going on, e.g. the bit for the first button translates into
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the ``EV_KEY/BTN_LEFT`` evdev event and relative X movement translates
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into the ``EV_REL/REL_X`` evdev event".
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Events
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In Linux, one ``/dev/input/event*`` is created for each ``Application
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Collection``. Going back to the mouse example, and repeating the
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sequence where one clicks and holds button 1, then clicks and holds
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button 2, releases button 1, and finally releases button 2, one gets::
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$ sudo libinput record /dev/input/event1
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# libinput record
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version: 1
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ndevices: 1
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libinput:
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version: "1.23.0"
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git: "unknown"
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system:
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os: "opensuse-tumbleweed:20230619"
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kernel: "6.3.7-1-default"
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dmi: "dmi:bvnHP:bvrU77Ver.01.05.00:bd03/24/2022:br5.0:efr20.29:svnHP:pnHPEliteBook64514inchG9NotebookPC:pvr:rvnHP:rn89D2:rvrKBCVersion14.1D.00:cvnHP:ct10:cvr:sku5Y3J1EA#ABZ:"
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devices:
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- node: /dev/input/event1
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evdev:
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# Name: PixArt HP USB Optical Mouse
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# ID: bus 0x3 vendor 0x3f0 product 0x94a version 0x111
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# Supported Events:
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# Event type 0 (EV_SYN)
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# Event type 1 (EV_KEY)
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# Event code 272 (BTN_LEFT)
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# Event code 273 (BTN_RIGHT)
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# Event code 274 (BTN_MIDDLE)
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# Event type 2 (EV_REL)
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# Event code 0 (REL_X)
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# Event code 1 (REL_Y)
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# Event code 8 (REL_WHEEL)
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# Event code 11 (REL_WHEEL_HI_RES)
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# Event type 4 (EV_MSC)
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# Event code 4 (MSC_SCAN)
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# Properties:
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name: "PixArt HP USB Optical Mouse"
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id: [3, 1008, 2378, 273]
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codes:
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0: [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15] # EV_SYN
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1: [272, 273, 274] # EV_KEY
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2: [0, 1, 8, 11] # EV_REL
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4: [4] # EV_MSC
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properties: []
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hid: [
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0x05, 0x01, 0x09, 0x02, 0xa1, 0x01, 0x09, 0x01, 0xa1, 0x00, 0x05, 0x09, 0x19, 0x01, 0x29, 0x03,
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0x15, 0x00, 0x25, 0x01, 0x95, 0x08, 0x75, 0x01, 0x81, 0x02, 0x05, 0x01, 0x09, 0x30, 0x09, 0x31,
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0x09, 0x38, 0x15, 0x81, 0x25, 0x7f, 0x75, 0x08, 0x95, 0x03, 0x81, 0x06, 0xc0, 0xc0
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]
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udev:
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properties:
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- ID_INPUT=1
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- ID_INPUT_MOUSE=1
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- LIBINPUT_DEVICE_GROUP=3/3f0/94a:usb-0000:05:00.3-2
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quirks:
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events:
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# Current time is 12:31:56
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- evdev:
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- [ 0, 0, 4, 4, 30] # EV_MSC / MSC_SCAN 30 (obfuscated)
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- [ 0, 0, 1, 272, 1] # EV_KEY / BTN_LEFT 1
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- [ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] # ------------ SYN_REPORT (0) ---------- +0ms
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- evdev:
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- [ 1, 207892, 4, 4, 30] # EV_MSC / MSC_SCAN 30 (obfuscated)
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- [ 1, 207892, 1, 273, 1] # EV_KEY / BTN_RIGHT 1
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- [ 1, 207892, 0, 0, 0] # ------------ SYN_REPORT (0) ---------- +1207ms
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- evdev:
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- [ 2, 367823, 4, 4, 30] # EV_MSC / MSC_SCAN 30 (obfuscated)
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- [ 2, 367823, 1, 272, 0] # EV_KEY / BTN_LEFT 0
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- [ 2, 367823, 0, 0, 0] # ------------ SYN_REPORT (0) ---------- +1160ms
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# Current time is 12:32:00
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- evdev:
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- [ 3, 247617, 4, 4, 30] # EV_MSC / MSC_SCAN 30 (obfuscated)
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- [ 3, 247617, 1, 273, 0] # EV_KEY / BTN_RIGHT 0
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- [ 3, 247617, 0, 0, 0] # ------------ SYN_REPORT (0) ---------- +880ms
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Note: if ``libinput record`` is not available on your system try using
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``evemu-record``.
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When something does not work
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============================
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There can be a number of reasons why a device does not behave
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correctly. For example
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* The HID report descriptor provided by the HID device may be wrong
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because e.g.
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* it does not follow the standard, so that the kernel
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will not able to make sense of the HID report descriptor;
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* the HID report descriptor *does not match* what is actually
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sent by the device (this can be verified by reading the raw HID
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data);
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* the HID report descriptor may need some "quirks" (see later on).
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As a consequence, a ``/dev/input/event*`` may not be created
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for each Application Collection, and/or the events
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there may not match what you would expect.
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Quirks
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------
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There are some known peculiarities of HID devices that the kernel
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knows how to fix - these are called the HID quirks and a list of those
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is available in `include/linux/hid.h`.
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Should this be the case, it should be enough to add the required quirk
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in the kernel, for the HID device at hand. This can be done in the file
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`drivers/hid/hid-quirks.c`. How to do it should be relatively
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straightforward after looking into the file.
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The list of currently defined quirks, from `include/linux/hid.h`, is
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.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/hid.h
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:doc: HID quirks
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Quirks for USB devices can be specified while loading the usbhid module,
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see ``modinfo usbhid``, although the proper fix should go into
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hid-quirks.c and **be submitted upstream**.
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See Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst for guidelines on how
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to submit a patch. Quirks for other busses need to go into hid-quirks.c.
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Fixing HID report descriptors
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-----------------------------
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Should you need to patch HID report descriptors the easiest way is to
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resort to eBPF, as described in Documentation/hid/hid-bpf.rst.
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Basically, you can change any byte of the original HID report
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descriptor. The examples in samples/hid should be a good starting point
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for your code, see e.g. `samples/hid/hid_mouse.bpf.c`::
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SEC("fmod_ret/hid_bpf_rdesc_fixup")
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int BPF_PROG(hid_rdesc_fixup, struct hid_bpf_ctx *hctx)
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{
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....
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data[39] = 0x31;
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data[41] = 0x30;
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return 0;
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}
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Of course this can be also done within the kernel source code, see e.g.
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`drivers/hid/hid-aureal.c` or `drivers/hid/hid-samsung.c` for a slightly
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|
more complex file.
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Check Documentation/hid/hidreport-parsing.rst if you need any help
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navigating the HID manuals and understanding the exact meaning of
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the HID report descriptor hex numbers.
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Whatever solution you come up with, please remember to **submit the
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fix to the HID maintainers**, so that it can be directly integrated in
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the kernel and that particular HID device will start working for
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everyone else. See Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst for
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guidelines on how to do this.
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Modifying the transmitted data on the fly
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-----------------------------------------
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Using eBPF it is also possible to modify the data exchanged with the
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device. See again the examples in `samples/hid`.
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Again, **please post your fix**, so that it can be integrated in the
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kernel!
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Writing a specialized driver
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----------------------------
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This should really be your last resort.
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.. rubric:: Footnotes
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.. [#hidraw] read hidraw: see Documentation/hid/hidraw.rst and
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file `samples/hidraw/hid-example.c` for an example.
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The output of ``hid-example`` would be, for the same mouse::
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$ sudo ./hid-example
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Report Descriptor Size: 52
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Report Descriptor:
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5 1 9 2 a1 1 9 1 a1 0 5 9 19 1 29 3 15 0 25 1 75 1 95 3 81 2 75 5 95 1 81 1 5 1 9 30 9 31 9 38 15 81 25 7f 75 8 95 3 81 6 c0 c0
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Raw Name: PixArt USB Optical Mouse
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Raw Phys: usb-0000:05:00.4-2.3/input0
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Raw Info:
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bustype: 3 (USB)
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vendor: 0x093a
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product: 0x2510
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...
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