On Monday 14 November 2005 00:11, Neil Brown wrote:
>
> The 'uinput' driver doesn't work well in 2.6.15-rc1. It
> triggers this complaint:
> printk(KERN_WARNING "input: device %s is statically allocated, will not register\n"
> "Please convert to input_allocate_device() or contact [email protected]\n",
> dev->name ? dev->name : "<Unknown>");
>
> The following patch fixes it for me, but I'm not convinced it is
> correct. I would expect it to need a special 'free' routine to match
> the special 'alloc' routine, but I couldn't easily find one.
>
Hi,
This should work OK as long as you don't try to reuse the uinput device
because input_unregister_device frees the data structure for you and
uinput does not expect to lose part of its data structure.
I am trying to comer up with a proper fix...
--
Dmitry
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