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Table of contents User Level Driver support.

User Level Driver support.

This option will enable a device node called "uinput". This node will be mapped to "/dev/input/uinput" or "/dev/misc/uinput" but most device manages should also make it available under /dev/uinput.

This node can be used to feed input events from user space into it. So you can create your own input devices from user space and they will be mapped into the normal /dev/input system.

This is usefull for application like inputpipe which allows to transfer the input events over the network.

If you enable this a a module it will be called "uinput".

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