STRUCT TOUCHPAD_PROTOCOL(9)

💅 NAME 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to struct touchpad_protocol(9) from the Kernel API Manual ✨ this struct is the touchpad message, and its message.type is 0x0210 💖 that's the whole NAME vibe: struct touchpad_protocol — touchpad message. message.type = 0x0210. periodt.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

here's the struct in all its glory, copied exactly so you can trust it fr fr:

       struct touchpad_protocol {
           u8 unknown1[1];
           u8 clicked;
           u8 unknown2[28];
           u8 number_of_fingers;
           u8 clicked2;
           u8 unknown3[16];
           struct tp_finger        fingers[];
        };

🫶 Members 🫶

• unknown1 — unknown 🙈
• clicked — 1 if a button-click was detected, 0 otherwise 👆
• unknown2 — unknown 💀
• number_of_fingers — the number of fingers being reported in fingers 🖐️
• clicked2 — same as clicked 🫶
• unknown3 — unknown 🌸
• fingers — the data for each finger 🎀

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file ./drivers/input/keyboard/applespi.c 📁
• struct keyboard_protocol(9)
• struct tp_finger(9)
• struct command_protocol_tp_info(9)
• struct touchpad_info_protocol(9)
• struct command_protocol_mt_init(9)
• struct command_protocol_capsl(9)
• struct command_protocol_bl(9)
• struct message(9)
• struct spi_packet(9)

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