Re: 2.6.21-rc3-mm1

Mariusz Kozlowski
2007-03-10T15:34:31Z

Hello,

> On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Greg KH wrote:
>
> > > hid_parse_report() is doing kmalloc(128k kbytes). We canot sanely
> > > support that and the code shold be rewritten to not do that. A simple
> > > though somewhat lame fix would be to switch to vmalloc().
> > > It's been this way for some time, so it's odd that the failures have
> > > just popped up now.
> > Jiri is the person to ask about this now. Jiri, any thoughts about
> > this?
>
> I have just queued the patch below to HID tree for the next upstream
> merge. Mariusz, I guess it solves your issue, right?

Right. Can't be 100% sure but without the patch it would have probably
failed by now so I guess the patch is ok. Not sure how to make usb mouse
plugging/unplugging process automatic ;-)

Thanks,

Mariusz Kozlowski