Re: 2.6.21-rc3-mm1

[Mariusz Kozlowski]

Hello,

> On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > > hid_parse_report() is doing kmalloc(128k kbytes).  We canot sanely 
> > > support that and the code shold be rewritten to not do that.  A simple 
> > > though somewhat lame fix would be to switch to vmalloc().
> > > It's been this way for some time, so it's odd that the failures have 
> > > just popped up now.
> > Jiri is the person to ask about this now.  Jiri, any thoughts about
> > this?
> 
> I have just queued the patch below to HID tree for the next upstream 
> merge. Mariusz, I guess it solves your issue, right?

Right. Can't be 100% sure but without the patch it would have probably
failed by now so I guess the patch is ok. Not sure how to make usb mouse
plugging/unplugging process automatic ;-)

Thanks,

	Mariusz Kozlowski
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