Re: [PATCH] input: avoid negative input device numbers

From: Richard Leitner
Date: Wed Oct 08 2014 - 17:49:45 EST


On Wed, 8 Oct 2014 14:30:51 -0700
Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 02:25:38PM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 10:42:45PM +0200, Richard Leitner wrote:
> > > From: Richard Leitner <richard.leitner@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Fix the format string for input device name generation to avoid
> > > negative device numbers when the id exceeds the maximum signed
> > > integer value.
> >
> > Well, it is going to take us a while to get there :)
> >
> > Applied, thank you.
>
> By the way, we have similar issue in serio and gameport code, mind
> sending fixes for them as well?
>
I'll send a patch for the serio in a few minutes.

The gameport code looks fine to me:

536 dev_set_name(&gameport->dev, "gameport%lu",
537 (unsigned long)atomic_inc_return(&gameport_no) - 1);

regards,
richard

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