Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
quoted text
> On 10/29/07, Jiri Kosina <jikos@jikos.cz> wrote:
>> On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Dirk Hohndel wrote:
>>
>>> [INPUT] hidinput_connect incorrectly ignored return value from
>>> input_register_device
>>> Signed-off-by: Dirk Hohndel <hohndel@linux.intel.com>
>> Will apply
> 
> Please don't - the fix is completely broken for multi-input devices -
> if 2nd device fails to register we bail out of hidinput_connect and
> thus never set HID_CLAIMED_INPUT bit. So when we disconnect device we
> never call hidinput_disconnect and who knows what will happen after
> that.
> 
> hidinput_connect() should properly unwind already registered devices
> after failure.

Then the existing code to handle hidinput and input_dev allocation 
failure probably also wants fixing...  Dirk's patch was largely 
following the same logic.

	Jeff



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