Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:14:49 -0400 | From | Mark Lord <> | Subject | Re: Regression 2.6.31: ioctl(EVIOCGNAME) no longer returns device name |
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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 ??)
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