From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Aristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho <aris@cathedrallabs.org>,
vojtech@suse.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: uinput broken in 2.6.15-rc1
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 01:10:04 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200511140110.05991.dtor_core@ameritech.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17272.7295.464735.805122@cse.unsw.edu.au>
On Monday 14 November 2005 00:11, Neil Brown wrote:
>
> The 'uinput' driver doesn't work well in 2.6.15-rc1. It
> triggers this complaint:
> printk(KERN_WARNING "input: device %s is statically allocated, will not register\n"
> "Please convert to input_allocate_device() or contact dtor_core@ameritech.net\n",
> dev->name ? dev->name : "<Unknown>");
>
> The following patch fixes it for me, but I'm not convinced it is
> correct. I would expect it to need a special 'free' routine to match
> the special 'alloc' routine, but I couldn't easily find one.
>
Hi,
This should work OK as long as you don't try to reuse the uinput device
because input_unregister_device frees the data structure for you and
uinput does not expect to lose part of its data structure.
I am trying to comer up with a proper fix...
--
Dmitry
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2005-11-14 5:11 uinput broken in 2.6.15-rc1 Neil Brown
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