From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Lord Subject: Re: 2.6.36/2.6.37: broken compatibility with userspace input-utils ? Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:54:50 -0500 Message-ID: <4D49D2AA.20201@teksavvy.com> References: <4D3C5F73.2050408@teksavvy.com> <4D496AAC.1010106@canonical.com> <20110202165800.GB3178@core.coreip.homeip.net> <4D49B7D7.9020003@canonical.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.183]:49167 "EHLO ironport2-out.pppoe.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754431Ab1BBVyx (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Feb 2011 16:54:53 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4D49B7D7.9020003@canonical.com> Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org To: Chase Douglas Cc: Dmitry Torokhov , Linux Kernel , linux-input@vger.kernel.org, kraxel@redhat.com On 11-02-02 03:00 PM, Chase Douglas wrote: > On 02/02/2011 11:58 AM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 09:31:08AM -0500, Chase Douglas wrote: >>> On 01/23/2011 12:03 PM, Mark Lord wrote: >>>> As of the 2.6.36 kernel, the userspace commands lsinput and input-kbd >>>> no longer work. And if I grab newer/patched versions of those from the latest >>>> Ubuntu 10.10, then those newer/patched versions do not work with kernels >>>> *before* 2.6.36. >>> >>> I planned on taking another look at this before we release Ubuntu 11.04 >>> at the end of April. That doesn't prevent someone else from helping out >>> :), but I'll make sure the utility is working again if not. >>> >> >> Here you go: That patch was not enough for me to get input-kbd working here on Ubuntu-10.10. It would still only let me map 10 keys of my 56(?) button remote. I also had to hack it to ignore the read-in map->size value when writing-out the new keymap. Cheers