Re: [PATCH] Input: refuse to register absolute devices without absinfo

From	Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH] Input: refuse to register absolute devices without absinfo
Date	2017-02-01 12:10 +0100
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On Tue, 31 Jan 2017, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

> If device is supposed to send absolute events (i.e. EV_ABS bit is set in
> dev->evbit) but dev->absinfo is not allocated, then the driver has done
> something wrong, and we should not register such device. Otherwise we'll
> crash later, when driver tries to send absolute event.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>

Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

Thanks.

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs

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[PATCH] Input: refuse to register absolute devices without absinfo Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> - 2017-02-01 00:20 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] Input: refuse to register absolute devices without  absinfo Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com> - 2017-02-01 09:40 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] Input: refuse to register absolute devices without  absinfo Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org> - 2017-02-01 12:10 +0100

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