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24.Dd September 14, 2020
25.Dt HIDBUS 4
26.Os
27.Sh NAME
28.Nm hidbus
29.Nd generic HID bus driver
30.Sh SYNOPSIS
31To compile this driver into the kernel,
32place the following lines in your
33kernel configuration file:
34.Bd -ragged -offset indent
35.Cd "device hidbus"
36.Cd "device hid"
37.Ed
38.Pp
39Alternatively, to load the driver as a
40module at boot time, place the following line in
41.Xr loader.conf 5 :
42.Bd -literal -offset indent
43hidbus_load="YES"
44.Ed
45.Sh DESCRIPTION
46The
47.Nm
48driver provides support for multiple HID driver attachments to single HID
49transport backend.
50See
51.Xr iichid 4
52or
53.Xr usbhid 4 .
54.Pp
55Each HID device can have several components, e.g., a keyboard and
56a mouse.
57These components use different report identifiers (a byte) combined into
58groups called collections to distinguish which one data is coming from.
59The
60.Nm
61driver has other drivers attached that handle particular
62kinds of devices and
63.Nm
64broadcasts data to all of them.
65.Sh SYSCTL VARIABLES
66The following variables are available as both
67.Xr sysctl 8
68variables and
69.Xr loader 8
70tunables:
71.Bl -tag -width indent
72.It Va hw.hid.hidbus.debug
73Debug output level, where 0 is debugging disabled and larger values increase
74debug message verbosity.
75Default is 0.
76.El
77.Sh SEE ALSO
78.Xr hconf 4 ,
79.Xr hcons 4 ,
80.Xr hgame 4 ,
81.Xr hidraw 4 ,
82.Xr hkbd 4 ,
83.Xr hms 4 ,
84.Xr hmt 4 ,
85.Xr hpen 4 ,
86.Xr hsctrl 4 ,
87.Xr hskbd 4 ,
88.Xr iichid 4 ,
89.Xr usbhid 4
90.Sh HISTORY
91The
92.Nm
93driver first appeared in
94.Fx 13.0.
95.Sh AUTHORS
96.An -nosplit
97The
98.Nm
99driver was written by
100.An Vladimir Kondratyev Aq Mt wulf@FreeBSD.org .
101