Re: Current git has USB keyboard and mouse unusable

[Dmitry Torokhov]

On Sun, Oct 22, 2017 at 8:46 AM, Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Having compiled a kernel today (bfc1168de949c in Linus' tree), I
> noticed keyboard and mouse were not working at all (stuck at X DM
> level).
>
> After digging a bit, I realized only one change in the recent input
> commits was quite general, and bingo, reverting "allow matching device
> IDs on property bits" (8724ecb072293f109) made input work again.
>
> I did not find anything special in the logs for the bad kernel...
>
> Should that commit be reverted for now? Maybe other people will be
> able to reproduce it?

Hm, that is not good. A few question before we decide to revert:

- do your devices work on text console?
- can you post /proc/bus/input/devices to see if event handlers bind
to the device?
- is evdev driver in your kernel compiled as a module?

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry