From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.name>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>,
<linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] [RFC] consolidate /sbin/hotplug call for pciand usb
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 01:35:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200209270135.18010.oliver@neukum.name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33L2.0209261522340.910-100000@ida.rowland.org>
> This raises a generally interesting question: When should a driver
> module be loaded?
It is an interesting question, but it is not a kernel problem :-)
[..]
> I think it's clear that the answer must depend on the particular driver,
> and that no single scheme involving usage counts (or the equivalent) can
> suffice for every situation.
>
> Is there a way to let the kernel provide a variety of mechanisms and let
> the device driver (or even the user) select which one gets used?
That is more or less what is in place. There's a kernel aspect to the problem,
because the kernel needs to implement an unload if nothing is bound to method,
as user space cannot do that without a race.
Regards
Oliver
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-26 23:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-25 21:29 [RFC] consolidate /sbin/hotplug call for pci and usb Greg KH
2002-09-25 22:04 ` Kai Germaschewski
2002-09-25 22:48 ` Greg KH
2002-09-26 0:11 ` [linux-usb-devel] " David Brownell
2002-09-26 0:25 ` Greg KH
2002-09-26 2:44 ` David Brownell
2002-09-26 4:27 ` Greg KH
2002-09-26 16:14 ` David Brownell
2002-09-26 18:43 ` Greg KH
2002-09-26 19:32 ` David Brownell
2002-09-26 19:34 ` Alan Stern
2002-09-26 23:35 ` Oliver Neukum [this message]
2002-09-26 17:48 ` [RFC] consolidate /sbin/hotplug call for pci and usb - take 2 Greg KH
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