Xorg doesn't find input devices with "Input: allow matching device IDs on property bits" applied

From: Arthur Marsh
Date: Sun Oct 22 2017 - 15:32:33 EST


After a recent git pull and kernel build and reboot, Xorg could not find the input devices and I was left with unresponsive mouse and keyboard until I could remotely shut-down and boot into an earlier kernel.

With good kernels, Xorg.log showed evdev finding the mouse and keyboard.

Bisecting lead to this commit:

git bisect good
8724ecb072293f109a6f5dc93be8a98bf61fe14f is the first bad commit
commit 8724ecb072293f109a6f5dc93be8a98bf61fe14f
Author: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Oct 9 12:01:14 2017 -0700

Input: allow matching device IDs on property bits

Let's allow matching input devices on their property bits, both in-kernel
and when generating module aliases.

Tested-by: Roderick Colenbrander <roderick.colenbrander@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx>

:040000 040000 4192943bfd5affbe9e86c14efd690bda5c90bd82 d30b9d9c3a7ed1a6078f56a3bec2a82e0ba09570 M drivers
:040000 040000 d39ca313c8d6dc86ad1175bf9374c76d9c134e82 8717e17cbb0556629dd8cf7a7c34694dd299925c M include
:040000 040000 ba4684d3706ca73868f39e90f673e3926e23e3ba 811ed0e561768778c86eefa4c5ea5f866a542156 M scripts

I am happy to run further tests if needed.

Arthur.