linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.36/2.6.37: broken compatibility with userspace input-utils ?

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Message-ID: <4D407A46.4080407@teksavvy.com>
Date:	Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:47:18 -0500
From:	Mark Lord <kernel@...savvy.com>
To:	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
CC:	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...hat.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-input@...r.kernel.org, linux-media@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.36/2.6.37: broken compatibility with userspace input-utils
 ?

On 11-01-26 02:41 PM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
>
> I do not consider lsinput refusing to work a regression.

Obviously, since you don't use that tool.
Those of us who do use it see this as broken userspace compatibility.

Who the hell reviews this crap, anyway?
Code like that should never have made it upstream in the first place.

Cheers
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