Re: 2.6.23: no more free evdev devices - evdev leak?

[Dmitry Torokhov]

On Nov 5, 2007 10:13 PM, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:34:44 +0000 Soeren Sonnenburg <kernel@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Dear all,
>
> (cc's added)
>
>
> > whenever I do a suspend resume cycle the input device's numbers are
> > increased until I finally run out of evdev devices. Is this a kernel
> > problem or some userspace program (udev/...) creating new devices all
> > the time?

evdev marks the device slot as free as soon as evdev_disconnect is
called which shoudl be called from input_unregister_device().

Could you please try sticking a printk in
hidinput_disconnect(drivers/hid/hid-input.c) to verify that
input_unregister_device is in fact being called?

-- 
Dmitry
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