[PATCH] xfree86: parser: Fix using heap memory for driver names. (Fixes #17438)

[Peter Hutterer]

On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 11:28:54AM -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Jesse Adkins wrote:
> > I also put this patch in bugzilla, in case it might help somebody in the
> > future.
> > 
> > While I'm at it, can I get some thoughts about logging this as a warning
> > or informational. What about deprecating this feature?
> 
> Could we just replace it with an xorg.conf.d snippet to Match the "keyboard"
> driver and choose "kbd" instead?   (It only matters for old xorg.conf files
> where that's not just completely ignored due to input hotplug anyway.)

Yes, we should and Dan's MatchDriver option should make this fairly easy.
For now and since this is I guess a long-standing bug that users of 1.7 and
1.8 may need I've merged Jesse's patch though.

Cheers,
  Peter