From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Bradley Chapman <kakadu_croc@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [BUG] Defunct event/0 processes under 2.6.0-test6-mm1
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 12:47:17 -0500
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On Monday 29 September 2003 11:41 am, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Bradley Chapman <kakadu_croc@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I am experiencing defunct event/0 kernel daemons under
> > 2.6.0-test6-mm1 with synaptics_drv 0.11.7, Dmitry Torokhov's gpm-1.20
> > with synaptics support, and XFree86 4.3.0-10. Moving the touchpad in
> > either X or with gpm causes defunct event/0 processes to be created.
>
> Defunct is odd.  Have you run `dmesg' to see if the kernel oopsed?
>
> You could try reverting synaptics-reconnect.patch, and then
> serio-reconnect.patch from
>
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.0-tes
>t6/2.6.0-test6-mm1/broken-out
>

Input subsystem uses only one kernel thread called kseriod, not eventsX.
I think it's not synaptics/serio reconnect but other patch you mentioned
(call_usermodehelper-retval-fix-2.patch)

Dmitry
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