USB mouse protocol,

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Hi!

I'm curious about some details in the protocol used by USB mice.
A cursory look at the "Device Class Definition for HID 1.11" documents
tells me (note this is the first USB technical document I ever read)
that a mouse can tell the host the format (the protocol) used to report
data (movement, button state etc.).

Also a quick look into linuxv2.6.25/drivers/hid/usbhid/usbmouse.c suggests
that 8 bits are used for position.

So my questions are:
 - is the position data always 8 bits wide ?
 - when are reports sent ? Are they polled by host ? Or sent by the device
on its own ?

Thanks for any answers,
David Balazic
 


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