[PATCH] linux: Don't lose console events on non-evdev drivers (#29969)

[Thomas Hellstrom]

On 09/06/2010 03:52 AM, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> From: Thomas Hellstrom<thellstrom at vmware.com>
>
> The drain_console() function will race with new keyboard events being added
> by the hardware causing the server to lose keyboard events if the console fd
> is used for input.
>
> Only use the drain_console() when AllowEmptyInput is off which is the best
> indicator we have for whether the keyboard driver will be used. This patch
> will only fix the bug when hotplugging is disabled.
> What we really need is a way to figure out either whether we're _not_ using
> the keyboard driver (not predictable) or a way for the keyboard driver to
> disable drain_console().
>
> X.Org Bug 29969<http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29969>
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom<thellstrom at vmware.com>
> Reviewed-by: Peter Hutterer<peter.hutterer at who-t.net>
> ---
> Thomas, I only added some comments to the commit message. Patch is good for
> the stable servers, though for master I think we might need something better
> integrated (see follow-up patch).
>
>    

Looks fine!

/Thomas