Re: psmouse unusable in -mm series (was: 2.6.15-rc1-mm2 unsusable on DELL Inspiron 8200, 2.6.15-rc1 works fine)

Dmitry Torokhov
2005-11-28T06:01:29Z

On Saturday 26 November 2005 12:28, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Saturday, 26 of November 2005 05:50, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > On Friday 25 November 2005 22:54, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > > > Actually, it works on the console (ie with gpm), but X is unable to use it,
> > > > apparently.  However it used to be, at least on 2.6.14-git9 (this is the latest
> > > > non-mm kernel I've been able to test quickly on this box).
> > > >
> > >
> > > Rafael,
> > >
> > > does reverting the following patch makes touchpad work?
> >
> > Or, try dropping this patch on top of -mm.
>
> That helps (additionally I've dropped "const" from the header of
> evdev_event_to_user, to avoid warnings).
>

Thank you for testing it.

For some reason sparc64 cross-compiler that I have did not issue any
warnings for the old code. I now tried doing x86_64 cross-compile and
it indeed warns me about constness and other problems.

--
Dmitry