From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dmitry Torokhov Subject: Re: Lost events in older kernels Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 00:42:49 -0700 Message-ID: <20100522074249.GA25143@core.coreip.homeip.net> References: <4BF7825F.2030405@seas.upenn.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mail-pv0-f174.google.com ([74.125.83.174]:36589 "EHLO mail-pv0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752437Ab0EVHmz (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 May 2010 03:42:55 -0400 Received: by pvg4 with SMTP id 4so119084pvg.19 for ; Sat, 22 May 2010 00:42:55 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4BF7825F.2030405@seas.upenn.edu> Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org To: Rafi Rubin Cc: linux-input , Jiri Kosina On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 03:06:07AM -0400, Rafi Rubin wrote: > I'm playing with a project with a 2.6.29 kernel, and the userspace application > seems to miss some events. Is there a particular fix that improved the handling? > > Also tried catting the dev to a file while testing, and the dump also is missing > some events. > No "interesting" patches went into evdev for a few release now... Hm, could it be that event queue is overflowing before userspace gets a chance to empty it. What kind of event rate are we talking here? -- Dmitry