libevdev is a wrapper library for evdev devices. it moves the common tasks when dealing with evdev devices into a library and provides a library interface to the callers, thus avoiding erroneous ioctls, etc.
git://git.freedesktop.org/git/libevdev http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libevdev/
The eventual goal is that libevdev wraps all ioctls available to evdev devices, thus making direct access unnecessary.
Go here for the API documentation: http://www.freedesktop.org/software/libevdev/doc/latest/
File bugs in the freedesktop.org bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=libevdev
Patches, questions and general comments should be submitted to the input-tools@lists.freedesktop.org mailing list: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/input-tools