Re: Patch for oops in a grabbed evdev after disconnect

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On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:54:17 -0400, Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > > [] As far as I understand the
> > > the input_dev structure shold be pinned in memory by the driver
> > > core since we have this link:
> > > 
> > > 	evdev->dev.parent = &input_dev->dev;

> > I don't think anyone checks this, unless the accompaining refcount
> > is set.

> From what I see we should be automatically taking the reference
> to parent kobject in
> 
> kobject_add_internal():
> 	parent = kobject_get(kobj->parent);
> 
> perent is set in kobject_add_varg():
> 	kobj->parent = parent;

I see you fixed this in a7097ff89c3204737a07eecbc83f9ae6002cc534.
Adam Jackson reports on the X11 side that it worked.

-- Pete
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