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quirks: improve the README
Make the headers valid markdown and reword/reformat a few other things to make it clearer and easier to read. Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
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= libinput data file format =
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libinput quirks file format
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===========================
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This directory contains hardware quirks used by libinput to work around bugs
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in the hardware, device behavior and to supply information not obtained
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**THIS IS NOT STABLE API**
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The data format may change at any time. If your data file is not part of the
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libinput git tree, do not expect it to work after an update. Absolutely no
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guarantees are made for backwards-compatibility.
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The data format may change at any time. If your quirks file is not part of
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the libinput git tree, do not expect it to work after an update. Absolutely
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no guarantees are made for backwards-compatibility.
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**THIS IS NOT A CONFIGURATION API**
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Use the `libinput_device_config_foo()` functions for device configuration.
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The quirks are hardware quirks only.
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Quirks here are hardware quirks only.
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== Data file naming ==
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Data file naming
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----------------
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Data files are read in versionsort order, read order determines how values
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override each other. A values read later override previously values. The
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current structure is 10-generic-foo.quirks for generic settings,
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30-vendor-foo.quirks for vendor-specific settings and 50-system-foo.quirks
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for system vendors. This is not a fixed naming scheme and may change at any
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time. It's an approximation only because some vendors are also system
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vendors, e.g. Microsoft makes devices and laptops.
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override each other. Values read later override previously read values. The
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current structure is:
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- `10-generic-foo.quirks` for generic settings,
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- `30-vendor-foo.quirks` for vendor-specific settings, and
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- `50-system-foo.quirks` for system vendors.
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Laptop-specific quirks should always go into the laptop vendor's file.
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This is not a fixed naming scheme and may change at any time. It's an
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approximation only because some vendors are also system vendors, e.g.
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Microsoft makes devices and laptops.
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== Sections, matches and values ==
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Laptop-specific quirks should always go into the laptop vendor's file even
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where they apply to a component of a different vendor. For example, a quirk
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for a Synaptics touchpad specific to a Dell laptop should go into the Dell
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quirks file.
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Sections, matches and values
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----------------------------
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A data file must contain at least one section, each section must have at
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least one `Match` tag and at least one of either `Attr` or `Model`. Section
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All `Attr` tag values are specific to that attribute.
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== Parser errors ==
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Parser errors
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-------------
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The following will cause parser errors and are considered invalid data
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files:
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* Whitespace at the beginning of the line
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* Sections without at least one `Match*` entry
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* Sections without a `Match*` entry
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* Sections with the same `Match*` entry repeated
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* Sections without at least one of `Model*` or `Attr` entries
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* A `Model` tag with a value other than `1` or `0`
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* A string property with enclosing quotes
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== Debugging ==
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Debugging
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---------
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When modifying a data file, use the `libinput list-quirks` tool to
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verify the changes. The tool can be pointed at the data directory to
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analyse, use `--verbose` to get more info. For example:
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```
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libinput list-quirks --data-dir /path/to/git/repo/data/ --verbose /dev/input/event0
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libinput list-quirks --data-dir /path/to/git/repo/quirks/ --verbose /dev/input/event0
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```
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