On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 01:37:35PM -0800, Duncan Laurie wrote: > On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 12:41 AM, Dmitry Torokhov > <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Duncan, > > > > On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 03:09:50PM -0800, Duncan Laurie wrote: > >> When rebinding a serio driver via sysfs drvctl interface it is possible for > >> an interrupt to trigger after the disconnect of the existing driver and > >> before the binding of the new driver. This will cause the serio interrupt > >> handler to queue a rescan event which will disconnect the new driver > >> immediately after it is attached. > >> > >> This change clears the serio event queue after processing the drvctl > >> request but before releasing the serio mutex, which will clear any queued > >> rescans before they can get processed. > >> > >> Reproduction involves issuing a rebind of device port from psmouse driver > >> to serio_raw driver while generating input to trigger interrupts. Then > >> checking to see if the corresponding i8042/serio4/driver is correctly > >> attached to the serio_raw driver instead of psmouse. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Duncan Laurie <dlaurie@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > >> --- > >> drivers/input/serio/serio.c | 1 + > >> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > >> > >> diff --git a/drivers/input/serio/serio.c b/drivers/input/serio/serio.c > >> index 405bf21..a66307e 100644 > >> --- a/drivers/input/serio/serio.c > >> +++ b/drivers/input/serio/serio.c > >> @@ -454,6 +454,7 @@ static ssize_t serio_rebind_driver(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute * > >> serio_disconnect_port(serio); > >> error = serio_bind_driver(serio, to_serio_driver(drv)); > >> put_driver(drv); > >> + serio_remove_pending_events(serio); > > > > Hmm, makes sense, although should we limit events being removed to > > rescan events only? > > > > > That seems reasonable. It would mean adding a new function or a > parameter to the existing serio_remove_pending_events function, do you > have a preference? > I wonder if a boolean parameter (rescan_only) would not be the best option. Thanks. -- Dmitry -- 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
