Re: input.c: start on release

["Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>]

On 2/23/07, Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com> wrote:
> Here's a curious code I found in drivers/input/input.c (2.6.21-rc1):
>
> void input_release_device(struct input_handle *handle)
> {
> ....
>        if (handle->handler->start)
>                handle->handler->start(handle);
> }
>
> Is the above supposed to be this way, or you meant ->stop here?

It should be ->start(). You are probably confused a little by the name
of the function. input_release_device() is called when userspace
issues ioctl(fd, EVIOCGRAB, 0) releasing (or ungrabbing) the device
(as opposed to xxx_release(file, inode) type functions that are called
when last user of a file drops off). In our case we want to give
handlers a chance to resume their control over device. Right now
standard keyboard driver uses start method do bring back in sync LED
state of a keyborad-like device after it was released (ungrabbed).

>
> The commit comment says:
>        Input: fix list iteration in input_release_device()
> It says me precisely nothing about the way it's supposed ot be, sorry...
>

It reason for ->start was explained in the patch it was introduced in,
the changeset you are referring to literally fixes issue with
iteration through list in this function.

-- 
Dmitry