From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dmitry Torokhov Subject: Re: Regression 2.6.31: ioctl(EVIOCGNAME) no longer returns device name Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 12:39:52 -0700 Message-ID: <20090719193952.GC17495@dtor-d630.eng.vmware.com> References: <1247862937.10066.21.camel@palomino.walls.org> <20090719144749.689c2b3a@hyperion.delvare> <4A6316F9.4070109@rtr.ca> <20090719145513.0502e0c9@hyperion.delvare> <4A631B41.5090301@rtr.ca> <4A631CEA.4090802@rtr.ca> <4A632FED.1000809@rtr.ca> <20090719190833.29451277@hyperion.delvare> <4A63656D.4070901@rtr.ca> <4A637212.2000002@rtr.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com ([209.85.198.239]:51994 "EHLO rv-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750986AbZGSTj4 (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Jul 2009 15:39:56 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4A637212.2000002@rtr.ca> Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org To: Mark Lord Cc: Jean Delvare , Andy Walls , linux-media@vger.kernel.org, Jarod Wilson , Mike Isely , Hans Verkuil , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Janne Grunau , Linux Kernel , Andrew Morton , linux-input@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 03:20:50PM -0400, Mark Lord wrote: > Mark Lord wrote: >> (resending.. somebody trimmed linux-kernel from the CC: earlier) >> >> Jean Delvare wrote: >>> On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 10:38:37 -0400, Mark Lord wrote: >>>> I'm debugging various other b0rked things in 2.6.31 here right now, >>>> so I had a closer look at the Hauppauge I/R remote issue. >>>> >>>> The ir_kbd_i2c driver *does* still find it after all. >>>> But the difference is that the output from 'lsinput' has changed >>>> and no longer says "Hauppauge". Which prevents the application from >>>> finding the remote control in the same way as before. >>> >>> OK, thanks for the investigation. >>> >>>> I'll hack the application code here now to use the new output, >>>> but I wonder what the the thousands of other users will do when >>>> they first try 2.6.31 after release ? > .. > > Mmm.. appears to be a systemwide thing, not just for the i2c stuff. > *All* of the input devices now no longer show their real names > when queried with ioctl(EVIOCGNAME). This is a regression from 2.6.30. > Note that the real names *are* still stored somewhere, because they > do still show up correctly under /sys/ > Should be fixed by f936601471d1454dacbd3b2a961fd4d883090aeb in the for-linus branch of my tree. -- Dmitry