linux-kernel - [PATCH] Input: docs: Fix the input

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Message-Id: <20241110-fix_input_doc-v1-1-745d5f908e61@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2024 19:05:02 +0100
From: Maud Spierings via B4 Relay <devnull+maud_spierings.hotmail.com@...nel.org>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>, 
 Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc: linux-input@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, 
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Maud Spierings <maud_spierings@...mail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] Input: docs: Fix the input_event struct documentation

From: Maud Spierings <maud_spierings@...mail.com>

Fix the datatype of the value field of the input_event struct which is
signed instead of unsigned.
See include/uapi/linux/input.h

Signed-off-by: Maud Spierings <maud_spierings@...mail.com>
---
 Documentation/input/input.rst | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/input/input.rst b/Documentation/input/input.rst
index 2c67fa904adcf902cebf8e7137c0a1609d879a50..d9a6de87d02de5301500b392191ab67e7db431ed 100644
--- a/Documentation/input/input.rst
+++ b/Documentation/input/input.rst
@@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ events on a read. Their layout is::
 	    struct timeval time;
 	    unsigned short type;
 	    unsigned short code;
-	    unsigned int value;
+	    int value;
     };
 
 ``time`` is the timestamp, it returns the time at which the event happened.

---
base-commit: de2f378f2b771b39594c04695feee86476743a69
change-id: 20241110-fix_input_doc-1debf7bcd9c5

Best regards,
-- 
Maud Spierings <maud_spierings@...mail.com>