Re: evdev keyboard driver stopped working after upgrading from Kernel 2.6.33-rc8 to 2.6.33 (official release)

[Zeno Davatz <zdavatz@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 08:22 +0100, Zeno Davatz wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 4:33 AM, Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> wrote:
>> > On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 21:45 +0100, Zeno Davatz wrote:
>>
>> >> I am always updating to the latest rc Kernel Release, that Linus shares via Git.
>> >>
>> >> I also upgraded to the latest stable kernel version after rc-8, to
>> >> 2.6.33. But since I am on 2.6.33 my Xorg evdev-Driver stopped working.
>> >> I can hit any key on the keyboard, but nothing will happen. The mouse
>> >> and the graphics are just fine and work well.
>> >>
>> >> I have an Asus Eeepc 1101HA, with Gentoo and the psb-kmod driver compiled.
>> >>
>> >> Xorg starts just fine, does not crash but the keyboard does not react.
>> >>
>> >> Everything worked fine on 2.6.33-rc8.
>> >>
>> >> Any hints what changed from 2.6.33-rc8 to 2.6.33 stable that made my
>> >> keyboard stop reacting?
>> >>
>> >> Let me know and I will test.
>> >
>> > I don't see any obvious candidates rc8->final.  There's _very_ little
>> > for input.
>> >
>> > On the bright side, there are only 225 commits, so a bisection should be
>> > almost painless.  That's probably your best bet for rapid resolution.
>>
>> Is there a possibility that something changed between rc2 and final,
>> something that would concern the evdev driver or the keyboard input?
>> It seems that /dev/input/event5 where the keyboard is found does not
>> pass anything on to Xorg.
>
> Dunno about rc2, I looked rc8->final.  Not much there.
>
>> I did not change anything else on my system except upgrading the kernel.
>
> I'd bisect it asap.

Ok, I will try that. Can you give a short input of how I should start bisecting?

Thank you for your Feedback.

Best
Zeno