Re: 2.6.14-rc4-mm1

[Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>]

On 10/17/05, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 04:39:52PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > On 10/17/05, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 01:22:42PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > > Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Le 17.10.2005 00:41, Andrew Morton a ?crit :
> > > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.14-rc4/2.6.14-rc4-mm1/
> > > > > >
> > > > > > - Lots of i2c, PCI and USB updates
> > > > > >
> > > > > > - Large input layer update to convert it all to dynamic input_dev allocation
> > > > > >
> > > > > > - Significant x86_64 updates
> > > > > >
> > > > > > - MD updates
> > > > > >
> > > > > > - Lots of core memory management scalability rework
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi Andrew,
> > > > >
> > > > > I got the following oops during the boot on my laptop (Compaq Evo N600c).
> > > > > .config is attached.
> > > > >
> > > > > Regards,
> > > > > Brice
> > >
> > > Where did get support for IBM TrackPoints into that kernel? It's
> > > certainly not in 2.6.14, and it's not in the -mm patch either ...
> > >
> >
> > Yes it is. We merged it at the beginning of 2.6.14.. ;)
> >
> > > That's likely the cause here, since the TP patch probably relies on
> > > non-dynamic allocation semantics.
> > >
> >
> > It was converted but I am aftraid when Greg created sub-class devices
> > something broke a bit. Do you see the ugly names input core prints?
>
> The "//" stuff you mean?  Did I do that?
>

Not directly. I was trying to make names look "nice" but when you
moved stuff around they stopped being nice ;) Although that name in
front of double "/" - it should not be there... it was supposed to be
"%s as %s/%s", somehow I screwed that up.

Hopefully I'll have some time tonight to investigate further.

--
Dmitry
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