[PATCH:evdev] Remove the reopen timer logic.

Keith Packard keithp at keithp.com
Tue Oct 20 05:58:49 PDT 2009


Excerpts from Peter Hutterer's message of Tue Oct 20 21:38:11 +0900 2009:

> The reason it exists is solely the issue mentioned above and it has been the
> source of a few bugs, some of them quite hard to debug. Most recently 23048
> which took quite a while to triage. The reopen logic complicates the driver
> and doesn't seem to be necessary anymore. It's just dead weight now.

Sounds good to me.

> FWIW, I wanted to get this patch in after 2.3.0 so we have ample time to
> revert it before 2.4.0 comes out should that be necessary. It won't land on
> the 2.3.x stable updates.

Yeah, not changing the stable branch can be a pain sometimes.

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keith.packard at intel.com
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