Re: [PATCH] hot-swapping support for PSX controllers

[Vojtech Pavlik]

On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 07:21:54PM +0100, Eric Piel wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> For now, a bug in the PSX controllers support in gamecon prevents 
> hot-swapping of such controllers. If a controllers is removed then all 
> the controllers stop working and cpu usage gets high. The attached patch 
> (against 2.6.11-rc3) corrects this bug by checking the information read 
> from the controller. If the message length is bigger than the maximum 
> possible, then it means the controller is not there and therefore this 
> value should be discarded.
> 
> Note that this is a re-send of a previous patch now that the patch of 
> Peter (which had to be applied before this one) has been intregrated in 
> the vanilla kernel. It's Peter's version modified to apply cleanly 
> against 2.6.11-rc3 plus a fix in the comment.
> 
> Please apply,
> Eric
> 
> --
> Fixes hotplug support for PSX controllers and some mis-sized arrays.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Piel <eric.piel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Nelson <rufus-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> --

Thanks; applied.


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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
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