Re: linux-next: Tree for July 30

[Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 05:36:16PM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Dmitry Torokhov
> <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 11:10:29PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >> On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:06:35 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> wrote:
> >>
> >> > I have created today's linux-next tree at
> >> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfr/linux-next.git
> >>
> >> The X server broke on my FC8 t61p thinkpad.  Mainline is OK.
> >>
> >> Various information is at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mo/
> >>
> >> I'm suspecting the input layer - my synaptics device seems to have
> >> disappeared?  See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mo/Xorg-log-diff.txt
> >>
> >
> > I think this patch should help with Synaptics:
> 
> Which unfortunately doesn't help all people running with older synaptics
> user-space after commit 0571c5d20aca71c735222132b02aebddf593045c
> ("Input: expand keycode space").
> 
> Can't this be solved without breaking Xorg on newer kernels running
> older synaptics?
> 

No. The X driver is broken. It tells kernel to use buffer bugger than
allocated and gets its stack smashed. Tslib has also soma funkiness
in the ioctl handling as well... *shrug*

We have a couple months to get distros updated...

-- 
Dmitry