From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753545Ab1AZQrJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jan 2011 11:47:09 -0500 Received: from mail-gw0-f46.google.com ([74.125.83.46]:48483 "EHLO mail-gw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753098Ab1AZQrH (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jan 2011 11:47:07 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=qJjvN0eQlQKGJtXHln1oGn331xuh1RS9YAbJxDqlwuu+aF0gpD5JtTJ3ubaF6MXZx6 tvOcuAGDGAVHnLE3nTny6qI887PGQSHwCq8/0wTWQxYi2f8o4QYDTOZVN4jlQJJ1c1+0 Rf+kB8Qb2EEXqidd2GdJ4FTw+ipt7nhsYuLLQ= Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 08:46:57 -0800 From: Dmitry Torokhov To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Cc: Gerd Hoffmann , Mark Lord , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel , linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.36/2.6.37: broken compatibility with userspace input-utils ? Message-ID: <20110126164657.GB29163@core.coreip.homeip.net> References: <20110125164803.GA19701@core.coreip.homeip.net> <20110125205453.GA19896@core.coreip.homeip.net> <4D3F4804.6070508@redhat.com> <4D3F4D11.9040302@teksavvy.com> <20110125232914.GA20130@core.coreip.homeip.net> <20110126020003.GA23085@core.coreip.homeip.net> <4D4004F9.6090200@redhat.com> <4D401CC5.4020000@redhat.com> <4D402D35.4090206@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4D402D35.4090206@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:18:29PM -0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > Em 26-01-2011 11:08, Gerd Hoffmann escreveu: > > Hi, > > > >> Btw, I took some time to take analyse the input-kbd stuff. > >> As said at the README: > >> > >> This is a small collection of input layer utilities. I wrote them > >> mainly for testing and debugging, but maybe others find them useful > >> too :-) > >> ... > >> Gerd Knorr [SUSE Labs] > >> > >> This is an old testing tool written by Gerd Hoffmann probably used for him > >> to test the V4L early Remote Controller implementations. > > > > Indeed. > > > >> The last "official" version seems to be this one: > >> http://dl.bytesex.org/cvs-snapshots/input-20081014-101501.tar.gz > > > > Just moved the bits to git a few days ago. > > http://bigendian.kraxel.org/cgit/input/ > > > > Code is unchanged since 2008 though. > > > >> Gerd, if you're still maintaining it, it is a good idea to apply Dmitry's > >> patch: > >> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-input/msg13728.html > > > > Hmm, doesn't apply cleanly ... > > I suspect that Dmitry did the patch against the Debian package, based on a 2007 > version of it, as it seems that Debian is using an older version of the package. Actually it was from Ubuntu, so it is based on 2008 checkout, but they also have more patches, take a peek here: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/input-utils_0.0.20081014-1.debian.tar.gz Thanks. -- Dmitry