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SubjectRe: evdev.c(EVIOCGBIT): Suspicious buffer size 511,
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 12:00:40AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:10:54 -0700 "Justin Mattock" <justinmattock@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm noticing:
> > evdev.c(EVIOCGBIT): Suspicious buffer size 511, limiting output to 64
> > bytes. See http://userweb.kernel.org/~dtor/eviocgbit-bug.html
> > with rc-3 not with rc2.
> > Did the patch to synaptics, seems
> > my xorg is not reading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/synaptics_drv.o
> > only /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/synaptics_drv.so
> > is there any easy fix, or do I have to recompile xorg?
> > regards;
> >
>
> (cc's added)
>

You can just copy the updated file manually into
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/.

I tried rebuilding synaptics from here:

git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-input-synaptics

but unfortunately it fails with some automake crap that I don't have
time to trace through at the moment.

--
Dmitry


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