From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dmitry Torokhov Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for July 30 Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:56:48 -0400 Message-ID: <20080731115301.ZZRA012@mailhub.coreip.homeip.net> References: <20080730170635.f737ffe9.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <20080730231029.9818953c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080731140708.GA11229@core.corenet.prv> <58cb370e0807310836x4a6e3c40rf5c3c8ec8b5caae0@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.251]:9739 "EHLO an-out-0708.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752048AbYGaP4y (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:56:54 -0400 Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id d40so98171and.103 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:56:54 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <58cb370e0807310836x4a6e3c40rf5c3c8ec8b5caae0@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Cc: Andrew Morton , Stephen Rothwell , linux-next@vger.kernel.org, LKML , linux-input@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 05:36:16PM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Dmitry Torokhov > 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 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