On 11-01-24 12:54 PM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > Hi Mark, > > On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 12:03:47PM -0500, Mark Lord wrote: >> As of the 2.6.36 kernel, the userspace commands lsinput and input-kbd >> no longer work. And if I grab newer/patched versions of those from the latest >> Ubuntu 10.10, then those newer/patched versions do not work with kernels >> *before* 2.6.36. >> >> At first glance, this looks like a visible regression. >> Is there a version of input-utils that works with both >> old and new kernels ? >> > > The event protocol number was updated to reflect support of large > scancodes, unfortunately some of the utilities expected exact version > and refuse to work with updated one. So is there a danger of memory corruption if running a binary that doesn't check the version number? In other words, did the size and/or format of returned data change for an ioctl() or something here? If so, then that is a user-visible regression, and shouldn't happen. One correct way to handle that, would be to create a new ioctl(), and mark the old one as deprecated, for removal a few years later perhaps. ??? Thanks -- 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
