[PATCH 1/8] input: Documentation: corrections for input.rst

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Tue Mar 02 2021 - 18:41:28 EST


Fix grammar, punctuation, and spelling.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-input@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-doc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
Documentation/input/input.rst | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- linux-next-20210202.orig/Documentation/input/input.rst
+++ linux-next-20210202/Documentation/input/input.rst
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Introduction
Architecture
============

-Input subsystem a collection of drivers that is designed to support
+Input subsystem is a collection of drivers that is designed to support
all input devices under Linux. Most of the drivers reside in
drivers/input, although quite a few live in drivers/hid and
drivers/platform.
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ will be available as a character device

crw-r--r-- 1 root root 13, 63 Mar 28 22:45 mice

-This device usually created automatically by the system. The commands
+This device is usually created automatically by the system. The commands
to create it by hand are::

cd /dev
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ whole suite. It handles all HID devices,
wide variety of them, and because the USB HID specification isn't
simple, it needs to be this big.

-Currently, it handles USB mice, joysticks, gamepads, steering wheels
+Currently, it handles USB mice, joysticks, gamepads, steering wheels,
keyboards, trackballs and digitizers.

However, USB uses HID also for monitor controls, speaker controls, UPSs,
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ events on a read. Their layout is::
};

``time`` is the timestamp, it returns the time at which the event happened.
-Type is for example EV_REL for relative moment, EV_KEY for a keypress or
+Type is for example EV_REL for relative movement, EV_KEY for a keypress or
release. More types are defined in include/uapi/linux/input-event-codes.h.

``code`` is event code, for example REL_X or KEY_BACKSPACE, again a complete