Re: [UINPUT] Allow EV_ABS to work in uinput.c

From: Vojtech Pavlik
Date: Tue May 31 2005 - 09:37:30 EST


On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 09:36:26AM -0300, Aristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho wrote:
> > uinput_alloc_device() is supposed to return the number of bytes read,
> > the value is returned to uinput_write() and from there to userspace. If
> > EV_ABS is set then it returns the value from uinput_validate_absbits()
> > instead, which is zero when everything is ok instead of the count.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <icampbell@xxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks; added to my tree.

> > --- 2.6.orig/drivers/input/misc/uinput.c 2005-05-25 10:45:56.000000000 +0100
> > +++ 2.6/drivers/input/misc/uinput.c 2005-05-25 10:47:02.000000000 +0100
> > @@ -216,9 +216,11 @@
> > /* check if absmin/absmax/absfuzz/absflat are filled as
> > * told in Documentation/input/input-programming.txt */
> > if (test_bit(EV_ABS, dev->evbit)) {
> > - retval = uinput_validate_absbits(dev);
> > - if (retval < 0)
> > + int err = uinput_validate_absbits(dev);
> > + if (err < 0) {
> > + retval = err;
> > kfree(dev->name);
> > + }
> > }
> >
> > exit:
>
> --
> Aristeu
>
>

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
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