Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] input: Dynamic Minor Numbers

[Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>]

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.herrmann@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Dmitry
> > 
> > On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Dmitry Torokhov
> > 
> > <dmitry.torokhov@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.herrmann@googlemail.com>

Thanks for testing!

-- 
Dmitry