[Pkg-acpi-devel] Bug#612628: udev: removal of uinput rule breaks acpi-fakekey

[Sven Joachim]

On 2011-02-09 18:09 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:

> reassign 612628 acpi-fakekey
> thanks
>
> On Feb 09, Sven Joachim <svenjoac at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> The removal of the input/uinput symlink breaks the acpi-fakekey package
>> whose initscript now refuses to start:
> It should have been fixed long ago.

Opening /dev/uinput instead of /dev/input/uinput works for me:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
diff --git a/debian/patches/acpi_fakekey.diff b/debian/patches/acpi_fakekey.diff
index 6a2a2cb..ea1ed4b 100644
--- a/debian/patches/acpi_fakekey.diff
+++ b/debian/patches/acpi_fakekey.diff
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ diff -Nru /tmp/clWVJzRiJd/acpi-support-0.115/Makefile /tmp/Umsn0ebzYy/acpi-suppo
 +	struct uinput_user_dev dev;
 +	fd_set sfd;
 +
-+	if ((fd = open("/dev/input/uinput", O_WRONLY | O_NDELAY)) == -1)
++	if ((fd = open("/dev/uinput", O_WRONLY | O_NDELAY)) == -1)
 +		fail("open device");
 +
 +	memset(&dev, 0, sizeof(dev));
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Don't know if there are older kernels that don't have /dev/uinput,
though.

Cheers,
       Sven