From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758409AbYHTQbV (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:31:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753913AbYHTQbL (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:31:11 -0400 Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com ([209.85.200.174]:20876 "EHLO wf-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753258AbYHTQbI (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:31:08 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=REd+6AyRGOywhBOteRzOZwHUDu/VenB7TCsoX/w6QjRByz1NAorWNYycNUORmlTLcX hsiDFJX2U52uBn6+KDSg5SfDvfF4KVBTkU4Q59d9BFYkSSphIxbyAi56qVoEg2ejZlfL T5WpRFktauYW2ynrFrmdWkqbFv2FNeTWSlHG8= Message-ID: Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:31:07 -0700 From: "Justin Mattock" To: "Dmitry Torokhov" Subject: Re: evdev.c(EVIOCGBIT): Suspicious buffer size 511, Cc: "Andrew Morton" , "Linux Kernel Mailing List" , linux-input@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20080820092806.ZZRA012@mailhub.coreip.homeip.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080820000040.55015b48.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080820092806.ZZRA012@mailhub.coreip.homeip.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 6:31 AM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 12:00:40AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: >> On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:10:54 -0700 "Justin Mattock" wrote: >> >> > I'm noticing: >> > evdev.c(EVIOCGBIT): Suspicious buffer size 511, limiting output to 64 >> > bytes. See http://userweb.kernel.org/~dtor/eviocgbit-bug.html >> > with rc-3 not with rc2. >> > Did the patch to synaptics, seems >> > my xorg is not reading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/synaptics_drv.o >> > only /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/synaptics_drv.so >> > is there any easy fix, or do I have to recompile xorg? >> > regards; >> > >> >> (cc's added) >> > > You can just copy the updated file manually into > /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/. > > I tried rebuilding synaptics from here: > > git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-input-synaptics > > but unfortunately it fails with some automake crap that I don't have > time to trace through at the moment. > > -- > Dmitry > Cool, I'll have a try at it again. What I did was copy /usr/lib/X11R6/lib/modules/input/synaptics_drv.o to /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/ then renamed it to synaptics_drv.so the module loads but is broken. When given time today I'll try and reinstall, and see if I can get it working. -- Justin P. Mattock