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    FromDmitry Torokhov <>
    SubjectRe: uinput broken in 2.6.15-rc1
    DateMon, 14 Nov 2005 01:10:04 -0500
    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
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