On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 09:31:08AM -0500, Chase Douglas wrote:
> On 01/23/2011 12:03 PM, 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.
>
> I planned on taking another look at this before we release Ubuntu 11.04
> at the end of April. That doesn't prevent someone else from helping out
> :), but I'll make sure the utility is working again if not.
>
Here you go:
>From dbe48c8044987da6e64036fa3f36d7b2826994d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 22:06:10 -0800
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Do not require exact version of EVDEV protocol, we can work with
other versions too.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx>
---
input.c | 8 +++++---
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/input.c b/input.c
index 73d5df1..08f4046 100644
--- a/input.c
+++ b/input.c
@@ -101,9 +101,11 @@ int device_open(int nr, int verbose)
close(fd);
return -1;
}
- if (EV_VERSION != version) {
- fprintf(stderr, "protocol version mismatch (expected %d, got %d)\n",
- EV_VERSION, version);
+
+#define EVDEV_MIN_VERSION 0x10000
+ if (version < EVDEV_MIN_VERSION) {
+ fprintf(stderr, "protocol version mismatch (need at least %d, got %d)\n",
+ EVDEV_MIN_VERSION, version);
close(fd);
return -1;
}
--
Dmitry
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