Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: Oops/Warning report for the week of March 28th 2008 | | From | Johannes Berg <> | | Date | Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:43:01 +0100 |
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> > That I've seen before, analysed a bit and posted: > > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.input/4281 > > Ahh.. And this is presumably triggered either by some new Xorg behavior in > fc9 or just the scheduler timing changes that caused other things too?
I tend to think it's actually a regression, I've done exactly what I described there dozens of times before on older kernels and it doesn't seem to be a race condition, X always locks the input device and I never had trouble with that before.
> Your suggested solution sounds ok, but I'm also wondering why those things > aren't properly refcounted? It does sound like a bug to free the thing > before all users are gone - regardless of anything else. Hmm?
I have to admit to not understanding the depths of the input code, I just took a quick look when I posted that. Mind you, that was 5 weeks ago!
> But the ungrab sounds like the best short-term fix. Do we have a patch for > testing? Please? It's pretty late in the 2.6.25 cycle for these kinds of > things..
I don't. I think Dmitry just said in the other mail that he did, but I haven't seen that yet.
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