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From: Simon Budig <simon.budig@kernelconcepts.de>
To: Chase Douglas <chase.douglas@canonical.com>
Cc: Jeffrey Brown <jeffbrown@android.com>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>,
	Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se>,
	linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH resend] hid-magicmouse: Increase evdev buffer size
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2011 14:20:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D99B785.9070602@kernelconcepts.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D975072.1040507@canonical.com>

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On 04/02/2011 06:36 PM, Chase Douglas wrote:
> On 04/01/2011 07:51 PM, Jeffrey Brown wrote:
>> I've got another change in the works that fixes this problem more
>> systematically.
> 
> That would be great :). I still would like to see this patch added so
> it's released with the 2.6.39 kernel and backported to earlier stable
> releases. I hope that's not a problem.

Wouldn't it make sense to change the buffer logic in the input layer
that in the case of a buffer overrun the head gets pushed forward to the
next SYN_REPORT?

One symptom I witnessed with the bug was, that I got partial reports,
which especially in the case of a multitouch report (A-Type) creates
false release-events. This would be solved by the head-forwarding.

(one could even think about more fancy stuff like combining relative
events and keeping track of the absolute events, but this seems a bit
like overkill)

Thanks,
        Simon
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       Simon Budig                        kernel concepts GbR
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-04 12:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-01 21:03 [PATCH resend] hid-magicmouse: Increase evdev buffer size Chase Douglas
2011-04-01 23:51 ` Jeffrey Brown
2011-04-02 16:36   ` Chase Douglas
2011-04-04 12:20     ` Simon Budig [this message]
2011-04-04 12:43   ` Jiri Kosina
2011-04-04 18:13     ` Jeffrey Brown
2011-04-04 18:55       ` Chase Douglas
2011-04-04 21:39         ` Dmitry Torokhov
2011-04-04 21:46           ` Chase Douglas
2011-04-05 19:45           ` Chase Douglas
2011-04-06 13:18             ` Jiri Kosina
2011-04-04 11:50 ` Henrik Rydberg

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