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Input: evdev - indicate buffer overrun with SYN_DROPPED
authorJeff Brown <jeffbrown@google.com>
Wed, 13 Apr 2011 06:29:38 +0000 (23:29 -0700)
committerDmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Wed, 13 Apr 2011 06:35:24 +0000 (23:35 -0700)
commite01f2303a7d1d4c3500f9bbe9e3a73eb05a6c7bc
treea384acf387f5dff50e0c3a56fa54336dedd286c5
parent3b21e490dcc5e644a38dc24e1420ecd8c0ac6cc2
Input: evdev - indicate buffer overrun with SYN_DROPPED

Add a new EV_SYN code, SYN_DROPPED, to inform the client when input
events have been dropped from the evdev input buffer due to a
buffer overrun.  The client should use this event as a hint to
reset its state or ignore all following events until the next
packet begins.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Brown <jeffbrown@android.com>
[dtor@mail.ru: Implement Henrik's suggestion and drop old events in
 case of overflow.]
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Documentation/input/event-codes.txt
drivers/input/evdev.c
include/linux/input.h