Hi Dmitry On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 11:22 AM, David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Dmitry > > On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Dmitry Torokhov > <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Thank you very much for working on this, unfortunately your patch extends the >> existing infrastructure handling of character devices in input core, >> which is quite rigid and sub-optimal. >> >> For a while now I wanted to stop input core from pre-creating character >> devices and multiplexing file operations and instead push more chardev >> handling tasks into individual input handlers and make they more >> independent from input core. So while I won't be taking your patch as is >> it was a great motivator to finally do something about current >> limitation and I would appreciate if you could take a look at the patch >> below and see if you have any issues with it. > > I didn't know why we did that, anyway. But I tried to keep that logic, > even though it is really weird. So I am quite glad that you fixed it. Sorry, compiling a kernel takes 44m here so I haven't had time earlier this day. But I just recompiled with your patch and it works like a charm. I have attached output of "ls -la /dev/input" with 900 uinput devices. Performance does suck but that is definitely another issue. So here's my: Tested-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> I will review the rest tomorrow. Cheers David
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