From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dmitry Torokhov Subject: Re: evdev.c(EVIOCGBIT): Suspicious buffer size 511, Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:31:57 -0400 Message-ID: <20080820092806.ZZRA012@mailhub.coreip.homeip.net> References: <20080820000040.55015b48.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mail-gx0-f16.google.com ([209.85.217.16]:61843 "EHLO mail-gx0-f16.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750889AbYHTNcD (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:32:03 -0400 Received: by gxk9 with SMTP id 9so137638gxk.13 for ; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:32:01 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080820000040.55015b48.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Morton Cc: Justin Mattock , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-input@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 12:00:40AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:10:54 -0700 "Justin Mattock" wrote: > > > I'm noticing: > > evdev.c(EVIOCGBIT): Suspicious buffer size 511, limiting output to 64 > > bytes. See http://userweb.kernel.org/~dtor/eviocgbit-bug.html > > with rc-3 not with rc2. > > Did the patch to synaptics, seems > > my xorg is not reading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/synaptics_drv.o > > only /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/synaptics_drv.so > > is there any easy fix, or do I have to recompile xorg? > > regards; > > > > (cc's added) > You can just copy the updated file manually into /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/. I tried rebuilding synaptics from here: git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-input-synaptics but unfortunately it fails with some automake crap that I don't have time to trace through at the moment. -- Dmitry