KGI input aka KII

Name

input-kii : KGI input aka KII

Synopsis

input-kii

Description

input-kii is the target input for KII, the Kernel Input Interface. It opens /dev/event[0-1] for allocating a KII device and get event streams from there.

Note that /dev/event does not behave the same way on Linux and FreeBSD. Particularly, on FreeBSD, /dev/event0 is not used to open directly the device 0 but to negociate the usage of other /dev/event[1-9] devices. Especially, when opening /dev/event0, the user must first get a unit and later attach it. This way, the KII device instance and the /dev/event instance are different things (FreeBSD contraint due to file/process relationships in the kernel).

KGI is required in the kernel.

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