On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 15:20:50 -0400, Mark Lord wrote: > Mark Lord wrote: > > (resending.. somebody trimmed linux-kernel from the CC: earlier) FWIW I don't think it was there in the first place. > > Jean Delvare wrote: > >> On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 10:38:37 -0400, Mark Lord wrote: > >>> I'm debugging various other b0rked things in 2.6.31 here right now, > >>> so I had a closer look at the Hauppauge I/R remote issue. > >>> > >>> The ir_kbd_i2c driver *does* still find it after all. > >>> But the difference is that the output from 'lsinput' has changed > >>> and no longer says "Hauppauge". Which prevents the application from > >>> finding the remote control in the same way as before. > >> > >> OK, thanks for the investigation. > >> > >>> I'll hack the application code here now to use the new output, > >>> but I wonder what the the thousands of other users will do when > >>> they first try 2.6.31 after release ? > .. > > Mmm.. appears to be a systemwide thing, not just for the i2c stuff. > *All* of the input devices now no longer show their real names > when queried with ioctl(EVIOCGNAME). This is a regression from 2.6.30. > Note that the real names *are* still stored somewhere, because they > do still show up correctly under /sys/ I was just coming to the same conclusion. So this doesn't have anything to do with the ir-kbd-i2c conversion after all... This is something for the input subsystem maintainers. I suspect this commit is related to the regression: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=3d5cb60ef3042ac479dab82e5a945966a0d54d53 -- Jean Delvare -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
