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On Monday 14 November 2005 00:11, Neil Brown wrote: > > The 'uinput' driver doesn't work well in 2.6.15-rc1. It > triggers this complaint: > printk(KERN_WARNING "input: device %s is statically allocated, will not register\n" > "Please convert to input_allocate_device() or contact dtor_core@ameritech.net\n", > dev->name ? dev->name : "<Unknown>"); > > The following patch fixes it for me, but I'm not convinced it is > correct. I would expect it to need a special 'free' routine to match > the special 'alloc' routine, but I couldn't easily find one. > Hi, This should work OK as long as you don't try to reuse the uinput device because input_unregister_device frees the data structure for you and uinput does not expect to lose part of its data structure. I am trying to comer up with a proper fix... -- Dmitry - 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/ | ||||||||||||
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