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I replaced the stub sentence. The article before read it is about only usb devices, no, I have a few usb devs that have /dev/input/event* files but also hardware like common keyboards have their own file there.
kernel docs read: evdev is the generic input event interface. It passes the events generated in the kernel straight to the program, with timestamps. The API is still evolving, but should be useable now. It's described in section 5.
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 161.76.99.106 ( talk • contribs) 04:49, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
I've partially rewritten the article, aiming to make it easier for non-techies to understand. Comments and improvements welcome.
Sourcing the article is difficult. It turns out there is not much user-level documentation for evdev, and developers seem to be expected to simply read the code (which is quite straightforward, BTW).
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help)Cheers − CWC 10:45, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
I've reverted the recent addition of images on this article because, like in other articles, the images are only marginally relevant and are being inserted into articles where they do not belong. Some image that vaguely shows, buried within irrelevant diagrams, that libEvdev is used by "Video game" via "SDL Input" with a box below it that contains the word "evdev" does not enhance a reader's understanding of the subject in any meaningful way. SDL Input isn't elaborated upon, nor what part evdev plays in any of that. That's why I have reverted these images, because while there may be an article where these are relevant, this article isn't it. - Aoidh ( talk) 21:00, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
This article is a complete mess. Official website link directs to one thing, while the text describes another two different things. Initially this article was about Linux input driver. So I am rewriting it. -- 22801759th ( talk) 20:40, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
FreeBSD and possibly others have adopted this as well now Commit. This article should be generified to be less Linux specific. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mnd999 ( talk • contribs) 09:20, 19 September 2016 (UTC)