Re: event devices not released

[Erik Slagter <erik@slagter.name>]

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Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Erik Slagter wrote:
> 
>> Symptoms: when I remove (unplug) a USB keyboard or mouse, the 
>> corresponding event device seems to be closed but not released; when I 
>> plug the device back in, it gets a new input device handle. This means 
>> that after several suspend/resume cycles (in which it seems all usb 
>> devices are virtually unplugged and replugged) the kernel is out of 
>> event devices and complains likewise. My nice little program that 
>> catches specific keystrokes also stops to get any interesting events 
>> from that moment on. After reboot everything works again as expected.

> this is very likely bug in HAL -- please see 
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=344872

Negative ;-)

A few moments ago I rebooted with HAL disabled and without going into X. 
I unplugged the hub that has the mouse and keyboard attached and plugged 
it back in again, a few times. Once again every time higher event 
handlers were assigned.


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