[APPLIED] [Maverick][pull-request] (evdev) Dynamic buffers

[Leann Ogasawara]

Applied to Maverick linux master.

Thanks,
Leann

On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 23:55 +0200, Henrik Rydberg wrote: 
> The following changes since commit c2e8d51100f22433062a86ec36383b549b7eb191:
>   Leann Ogasawara (1):
>         UBUNTU: Bump ABI
> 
> are available in the git repository at:
> 
>   git://kernel.ubuntu.com/rydberg/maverick-input.git master
> 
> Henrik Rydberg (5):
>       Input: evdev - convert to dynamic event buffer
>       Input: evdev - use driver hint to compute size of event buffer
>       Input: bcm5974 - set the average number of events per MT event packet
>       Input: hid-input - use a larger event buffer for MT devices
>       Input: evdev - never leave the client buffer empty after write
> 
> Pulling these cherry-picks will fix a long-standing problem with occasionally
> dropped events from devices that produce a lot of them, such as MT devices. The
> patches are queued for 2.6.36 in Dmitry's tree at
> 
>    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input.git
> 
> The cherry-picked commits are
> 
> b58f708 Input: evdev - convert to dynamic event buffer
> 63a6404 Input: evdev - use driver hint to compute size of event buffer
> c13aea0 Input: bcm5974 - set the average number of events per MT event packet
> 6967b4d Input: hid-input - use a larger event buffer for MT devices
> e725a49 Input: evdev - never leave the client buffer empty after write
> 
> The changes can be browsed at
> 
>    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/rydberg/maverick-input.git
> 
> This time around, there are no complicated buffer patches that might cause
> unpleasant regressions. ;-)
> 
> Thanks,
> Henrik
> 
> PS. I sent this mail earlier on today, but it got caught in a filter somewhere.
> In case it reappears, please ignore, since the upstream commit ids unexpectedly
> changed.
>