On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:06:14 -0500, "Dmitry Torokhov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/23/07, Pete Zaitcev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > void input_release_device(struct input_handle *handle) > > { > > .... > > if (handle->handler->start) > > handle->handler->start(handle); > It should be ->start(). You are probably confused a little by the name > of the function. input_release_device() is called when userspace > issues ioctl(fd, EVIOCGRAB, 0) releasing (or ungrabbing) the device > (as opposed to xxx_release(file, inode) type functions that are called > when last user of a file drops off). In our case we want to give > handlers a chance to resume their control over device. Right now > standard keyboard driver uses start method do bring back in sync LED > state of a keyborad-like device after it was released (ungrabbed). Thanks for the explanation. I suspect people asked you 100 times before. I can see why we would want to do this when a grab ends, but why do we do this on every close of /dev/input/mice? The call path is: mousedev_release -> mixdev_release (optional for some majors) input_close_device -> input_release_device Same thing happens upon disconnect, though this is probably harmless, as the device is gone already anyway. To tell you the truth, all I really want is to hold a static mutex across a call to input_close_device(). Can I do that? -- Pete - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/