[PATCH 0/3] [Maverick] UBUNTU: (evdev) Dynamic buffers (rev4)

[Leann Ogasawara]

Applied to Maverick linux master.  Again, if you or Chase could give us
an update when these do in fact hit Dimitry's input tree and note the
sha1's that would be great.

Thanks,
Leann

On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 11:52 +0200, Henrik Rydberg wrote:
> These patches fixes a long-standing problem with occasionally dropped
> events from devices that produce a lot of them, such as MT
> devices. The problem is especially important to MT devices with
> contact tracking. The locking mechanism involved is not entirely
> trivial, and the ideal solution has been postponed upstream, until all
> details have been settled (multi-reader buffers, see
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/6/4/53). The enclosed patches
> (http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/6/5/59) are the ones being queued for
> 2.6.36.
> 
> Best regards,
> Henrik Rydberg
> 
> Henrik Rydberg (3):
>   UBUNTU: (evdev) Use multi-reader buffer to save space (rev4)
>   UBUNTU: (evdev) Convert to dynamic event buffer (rev4)
>   UBUNTU: (evdev) Use driver hint to compute the evdev buffer size
>     (rev2)
> 
>  drivers/input/evdev.c |   68 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
>  include/linux/input.h |   17 ++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 63 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
> 
>