Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751514AbZGSUOy (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:14:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751392AbZGSUOw (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:14:52 -0400 Received: from rtr.ca ([76.10.145.34]:39422 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751287AbZGSUOv (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:14:51 -0400 Message-ID: <4A637EB9.5040004@rtr.ca> Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:14:49 -0400 From: Mark Lord Organization: Real-Time Remedies Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090608) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dmitry Torokhov Cc: Jean Delvare , Andy Walls , linux-media@vger.kernel.org, Jarod Wilson , Mike Isely , Hans Verkuil , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Janne Grunau , Linux Kernel , Andrew Morton , linux-input@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Regression 2.6.31: ioctl(EVIOCGNAME) no longer returns device name References: <1247862937.10066.21.camel@palomino.walls.org> <20090719144749.689c2b3a@hyperion.delvare> <4A6316F9.4070109@rtr.ca> <20090719145513.0502e0c9@hyperion.delvare> <4A631B41.5090301@rtr.ca> <4A631CEA.4090802@rtr.ca> <4A632FED.1000809@rtr.ca> <20090719190833.29451277@hyperion.delvare> <4A63656D.4070901@rtr.ca> <4A637212.2000002@rtr.ca> <20090719193952.GC17495@dtor-d630.eng.vmware.com> In-Reply-To: <20090719193952.GC17495@dtor-d630.eng.vmware.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1832 Lines: 42 Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 03:20:50PM -0400, Mark Lord wrote: >> Mark Lord wrote: >>> (resending.. somebody trimmed linux-kernel from the CC: earlier) >>> >>> Jean Delvare wrote: >>>> On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 10:38:37 -0400, Mark Lord wrote: >>>>> I'm debugging various other b0rked things in 2.6.31 here right now, >>>>> so I had a closer look at the Hauppauge I/R remote issue. >>>>> >>>>> The ir_kbd_i2c driver *does* still find it after all. >>>>> But the difference is that the output from 'lsinput' has changed >>>>> and no longer says "Hauppauge". Which prevents the application from >>>>> finding the remote control in the same way as before. >>>> OK, thanks for the investigation. >>>> >>>>> I'll hack the application code here now to use the new output, >>>>> but I wonder what the the thousands of other users will do when >>>>> they first try 2.6.31 after release ? >> .. >> >> Mmm.. appears to be a systemwide thing, not just for the i2c stuff. >> *All* of the input devices now no longer show their real names >> when queried with ioctl(EVIOCGNAME). This is a regression from 2.6.30. >> Note that the real names *are* still stored somewhere, because they >> do still show up correctly under /sys/ >> > > Should be fixed by f936601471d1454dacbd3b2a961fd4d883090aeb in the > for-linus branch of my tree. .. Peachy. Push it, or post it here and I can re-test with it. (does anyone else find it spooky that a google search for the above commit id actually finds Dmitry's email quoted above ? Mere seconds after he posted it for the very first time ??) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/