Re: A modest proposal...

[Vojtech P. <vo...@su...>]

On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 12:27:10PM -0700, James Simmons wrote:
> 
> > > There is a limit to 256 event devices. Now you
> > > say that is a good number but given 5 input devices it whould take 15
> > > times unplugging and plugging them back in before you run out of numbers.
> > > So I like to suggest that we keep track of the "free" numbers and grab the
> > > lowest one.
> > 
> > We do this, at least in evdev.
> 
> Yes but input.c you just increase it from what I could see.

No:

	dev->number = find_first_zero_bit(input_devices, INPUT_DEVICES);

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs