Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Nov 2007 09:06:16 -0500 | From | "Dmitry Torokhov" <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.23: no more free evdev devices - evdev leak? |
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On Nov 5, 2007 10:13 PM, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:34:44 +0000 Soeren Sonnenburg <kernel@nn7.de> wrote: > > > Dear all, > > (cc's added) > > > > whenever I do a suspend resume cycle the input device's numbers are > > increased until I finally run out of evdev devices. Is this a kernel > > problem or some userspace program (udev/...) creating new devices all > > the time?
evdev marks the device slot as free as soon as evdev_disconnect is called which shoudl be called from input_unregister_device().
Could you please try sticking a printk in hidinput_disconnect(drivers/hid/hid-input.c) to verify that input_unregister_device is in fact being called?
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