[PATCH] unload input modules when they are no longer used

[Michal Suchanek]

Hello

On 22 June 2012 03:55, Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 04:19:17PM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> sending the patch witch should fix issue with unloading sibling
>> modules along with a couple of patches that allow actually unloading
>> modules.
>
> in the future, please send patches out separately. it's a bit of a pain to
> review and comment otherwise, especially as  I have to edit the mimetype for
> from application/octet-stream to text/plain all of them.

The joys of Mozilla client software.

I found there is an unix server that is allowed to send mail which
should address this issue.

> urgh, no. why does the caller need to care about the module count at all? the
> input code should just call unload and let the loader sort it out.

urgh, yes.

The input code needs to know when to delete the driver from its list
and the loader does not return anything.

I could possibly make it return something different when this check
fails but I am not sure it has any nice semantics. The close on the
actual object handle can fail also and then the module is already
uninitialized, and unloading child submodules can fail, too.

>
>>      if (xf86InputDriverList[drvIndex] && xf86InputDriverList[drvIndex]->module)
>>          UnloadModule(xf86InputDriverList[drvIndex]->module);
>>      free(xf86InputDriverList[drvIndex]);
>>      xf86InputDriverList[drvIndex] = NULL;
>> +    if (drvIndex + 1 < xf86NumInputDrivers)
>> +        memmove(xf86InputDriverList[drvIndex], xf86InputDriverList[drvIndex+1],
>> +                sizeof(xf86InputDriverList[drvIndex]) * (xf86NumInputDrivers - drvIndex - 1));
>> +    xf86NumInputDrivers--;
>> +    xf86InputDriverList[xf86NumInputDrivers] = NULL;
>
> this sounds like a prime target for a xorg_list switch to avoid this code.
>

The loader sibling list even more so.

Still the input device list is substantially simpler structure than
xorg_list with the only downside that deletion is somewhat hairy.
Perhaps another one is that xorg_list has tests but the input device
list does not.

I will be sending updated version of the patches which should
hopefully address the concerns stripped off this email ;-)

Thanks

Michal