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From: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: vojtech@suse.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fw: Oops in hidinput_hid_event
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 21:13:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050725211308.6fc3d134.zaitcev@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050725205226.6343f323.akpm@osdl.org>

On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 20:52:26 -0700, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:

> Do you expect this patch:
> 
> > --- linux-2.6.12/drivers/usb/input/hid-input.c	2005-06-21 12:58:47.000000000 -0700
> > -	struct input_dev *input = &field->hidinput->input;
> > +	struct input_dev *input;
> > -	if (!input)
> > +	if (!field->hidinput)
> >  		return;
> > +	input = &field->hidinput->input;

> To actually fix the above oops?  It sure looks like it will.
> But I worry whether it is the correct fix?

It is a correct fix, safe to apply. However, Vojtech wrote me that he
will look how exactly an event can be reported without associated
infrastructure. Personally, I suspect that this has something to do
with the motherboard in question. Perhas the PS/2 port is disabled
somehow...

-- Pete

      reply	other threads:[~2005-07-26  4:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-18 21:16 Fw: Oops in hidinput_hid_event Pete Zaitcev
2005-07-19  1:31 ` Jesper Juhl
2005-07-19  1:34   ` Jesper Juhl
2005-07-19  7:17   ` Pete Zaitcev
2005-07-19 13:30 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-07-26 14:11   ` Sergey Vlasov
2005-07-26  3:52 ` Andrew Morton
2005-07-26  4:13   ` Pete Zaitcev [this message]

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