Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

On 10/29/07, Jiri Kosina [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Dirk Hohndel wrote:

quoted

[INPUT] hidinput_connect incorrectly ignored return value from
input_register_device
Signed-off-by: Dirk Hohndel <redacted>

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