linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RESEND] Interpret 0 length ff effects as infinite (0xffff) length effects

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Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2024 23:10:18 -0400
From: Paul Dino Jones <paul@...cefreak18.xyz>
To: jikos@...nel.org
Cc: anssi.hannula@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	paul@...cefreak18.xyz
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] Interpret 0 length ff effects as infinite
 (0xffff) length effects

Hello, and thank you for getting back to me.

Without this, a lot of wheels do not work with proton and wine and other
software.

A lot of the community is already using this patch or other similar
workarounds.

I can't think of a situation where sending an effect of length zero
would ever make sense.

If you read through the first time I sent this patch you will see a lot
of the research that went into this.

https://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2210.0/04133.html

- Paul