On Friday, September 21, 2012 09:18:00 PM David Herrmann wrote: > Hi Dmitry > > On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 11:22 AM, David Herrmann > > <dh.herrm...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Hi Dmitry > > > > On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Dmitry Torokhov > > > > <dmitry.torok...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Thank you very much for working on this, unfortunately your patch extends > >> the existing infrastructure handling of character devices in input core, > >> which is quite rigid and sub-optimal. > >> > >> For a while now I wanted to stop input core from pre-creating character > >> devices and multiplexing file operations and instead push more chardev > >> handling tasks into individual input handlers and make they more > >> independent from input core. So while I won't be taking your patch as is > >> it was a great motivator to finally do something about current > >> limitation and I would appreciate if you could take a look at the patch > >> below and see if you have any issues with it. > > > > I didn't know why we did that, anyway. But I tried to keep that logic, > > even though it is really weird. So I am quite glad that you fixed it. > > Sorry, compiling a kernel takes 44m here so I haven't had time earlier > this day. But I just recompiled with your patch and it works like a > charm. I have attached output of "ls -la /dev/input" with 900 uinput > devices. Performance does suck but that is definitely another issue.
Could you elaborate a bit on this? > > So here's my: > Tested-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrm...@googlemail.com> Thanks for testing! -- Dmitry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
