1 // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
3 * Hidraw Userspace Example
5 * Copyright (c) 2010 Alan Ott <alan@signal11.us>
6 * Copyright (c) 2010 Signal 11 Software
8 * The code may be used by anyone for any purpose,
9 * and can serve as a starting point for developing
10 * applications using hidraw.
14 #include <linux/types.h>
15 #include <linux/input.h>
16 #include <linux/hidraw.h>
19 * Ugly hack to work around failing compilation on systems that don't
20 * yet populate new version of hidraw.h to userspace.
22 #ifndef HIDIOCSFEATURE
23 #warning Please have your distro update the userspace kernel headers
24 #define HIDIOCSFEATURE(len) _IOC(_IOC_WRITE|_IOC_READ, 'H', 0x06, len)
25 #define HIDIOCGFEATURE(len) _IOC(_IOC_WRITE|_IOC_READ, 'H', 0x07, len)
29 #include <sys/ioctl.h>
30 #include <sys/types.h>
41 const char *bus_str(int bus);
43 int main(int argc, char **argv)
46 int i, res, desc_size = 0;
48 struct hidraw_report_descriptor rpt_desc;
49 struct hidraw_devinfo info;
50 char *device = "/dev/hidraw0";
55 /* Open the Device with non-blocking reads. In real life,
56 don't use a hard coded path; use libudev instead. */
57 fd = open(device, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK);
60 perror("Unable to open device");
64 memset(&rpt_desc, 0x0, sizeof(rpt_desc));
65 memset(&info, 0x0, sizeof(info));
66 memset(buf, 0x0, sizeof(buf));
68 /* Get Report Descriptor Size */
69 res = ioctl(fd, HIDIOCGRDESCSIZE, &desc_size);
71 perror("HIDIOCGRDESCSIZE");
73 printf("Report Descriptor Size: %d\n", desc_size);
75 /* Get Report Descriptor */
76 rpt_desc.size = desc_size;
77 res = ioctl(fd, HIDIOCGRDESC, &rpt_desc);
79 perror("HIDIOCGRDESC");
81 printf("Report Descriptor:\n");
82 for (i = 0; i < rpt_desc.size; i++)
83 printf("%hhx ", rpt_desc.value[i]);
88 res = ioctl(fd, HIDIOCGRAWNAME(256), buf);
90 perror("HIDIOCGRAWNAME");
92 printf("Raw Name: %s\n", buf);
94 /* Get Physical Location */
95 res = ioctl(fd, HIDIOCGRAWPHYS(256), buf);
97 perror("HIDIOCGRAWPHYS");
99 printf("Raw Phys: %s\n", buf);
102 res = ioctl(fd, HIDIOCGRAWINFO, &info);
104 perror("HIDIOCGRAWINFO");
106 printf("Raw Info:\n");
107 printf("\tbustype: %d (%s)\n",
108 info.bustype, bus_str(info.bustype));
109 printf("\tvendor: 0x%04hx\n", info.vendor);
110 printf("\tproduct: 0x%04hx\n", info.product);
114 buf[0] = 0x9; /* Report Number */
118 res = ioctl(fd, HIDIOCSFEATURE(4), buf);
120 perror("HIDIOCSFEATURE");
122 printf("ioctl HIDIOCSFEATURE returned: %d\n", res);
125 buf[0] = 0x9; /* Report Number */
126 res = ioctl(fd, HIDIOCGFEATURE(256), buf);
128 perror("HIDIOCGFEATURE");
130 printf("ioctl HIDIOCGFEATURE returned: %d\n", res);
131 printf("Report data:\n\t");
132 for (i = 0; i < res; i++)
133 printf("%hhx ", buf[i]);
137 /* Send a Report to the Device */
138 buf[0] = 0x1; /* Report Number */
140 res = write(fd, buf, 2);
142 printf("Error: %d\n", errno);
145 printf("write() wrote %d bytes\n", res);
148 /* Get a report from the device */
149 res = read(fd, buf, 16);
153 printf("read() read %d bytes:\n\t", res);
154 for (i = 0; i < res; i++)
155 printf("%hhx ", buf[i]);