Re: uinput broken in 2.6.15-rc1

[Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>]

On Monday 14 November 2005 00:11, Neil Brown wrote:
> 
> The 'uinput' driver doesn't work well in 2.6.15-rc1.  It
> triggers this complaint:
> 		printk(KERN_WARNING "input: device %s is statically allocated, will not register\n"
> 			"Please convert to input_allocate_device() or contact dtor_core@ameritech.net\n",
> 			dev->name ? dev->name : "<Unknown>");
> 
> The following patch fixes it for me, but I'm not convinced it is
> correct.  I would expect it to need a special 'free' routine to match
> the special 'alloc' routine, but I couldn't easily find one.
> 

Hi,

This should work OK as long as you don't try to reuse the uinput device
because input_unregister_device frees the data structure for you and
uinput does not expect to lose part of its data structure.

I am trying to comer up with a proper fix...

-- 
Dmitry