Re: Regression 2.6.31: ioctl(EVIOCGNAME) no longer returns devicename

[Mark Lord]

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 ??)
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/