[PATCH] input: Document the bcm5974 driver

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This patch adds documentation for the bcm5974 to Documentation/input/.

Signed-off-by: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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+BCM5974 Driver (bcm5974)
+------------------------
+	Copyright (C) 2008-2009	Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>
+
+The USB initialization and package decoding was made by Scott Shawcroft as
+part of the touchd user-space driver project:
+	Copyright (C) 2008	Scott Shawcroft (scott.shawcroft@xxxxxxxxx)
+
+The BCM5974 driver is based on the appletouch driver:
+	Copyright (C) 2001-2004	Greg Kroah-Hartman (greg@xxxxxxxxx)
+	Copyright (C) 2005	Johannes Berg (johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
+	Copyright (C) 2005	Stelian Pop (stelian@xxxxxxxxxx)
+	Copyright (C) 2005	Frank Arnold (frank@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
+	Copyright (C) 2005	Peter Osterlund (petero2@xxxxxxxxx)
+	Copyright (C) 2005	Michael Hanselmann (linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxx)
+	Copyright (C) 2006	Nicolas Boichat (nicolas@xxxxxxxxxx)
+
+This driver adds support for the multi-touch trackpad on the new Apple
+Macbook Air and Macbook Pro laptops. It replaces the appletouch driver on
+those computers, and integrates well with the synaptics driver of the Xorg
+system.
+
+Known to work on Macbook Air, Macbook Pro Penryn and the new unibody
+Macbook 5 and Macbook Pro 5.
+
+Usage
+-----
+
+The driver loads automatically for the supported usb device ids, and
+becomes available both as an event device (/dev/input/event*) and as a
+mouse via the mousedev driver (/dev/input/mice).
+
+USB Race
+--------
+
+The Apple multi-touch trackpads report both mouse and keyboard events via
+different interfaces of the same usb device. This creates a race condition
+with the HID driver, which, if not told otherwise, will find the standard
+HID mouse and keyboard, and claim the whole device. To remedy, the usb
+product id must be listed in the mouse_ignore list of the hid driver.
+
+Debug output
+------------
+
+To ease the development for new hardware version, verbose packet output can
+be switched on with the debug kernel module parameter. The range [1-9]
+yields different levels of verbosity. Example (as root):
+
+rmmod bcm5974 && sudo modprobe bcm5974 debug=9
+
+tail -f /var/log/debug
+
+rmmod bcm5974 && sudo modprobe bcm5974 debug=0
+
+Trivia
+------
+
+The driver was developed at the ubuntu forums in June 2008 [1], and now has
+a more permanent home at bitmath.org [2].
+
+Links
+-----
+
+[1] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=840040
+[2] http://http://bitmath.org/code/
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1.5.6.3

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