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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Cc: Fredrik Tolf <fredrik@dolda2000.cjb.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Input layer demand loading
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 15:16:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030716221613.GA3067@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200307170007.04782.oliver@neukum.org>

On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 12:07:04AM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> 
> > > Huh? Look at it this way: As it is now, if you have a non-hotplug joystick, 
> > > then you can't load anything automatically, not even the hardware drivers.
> > 
> > Correct.
> > 
> > > If you have demand-loading in the input layer, on the other hand, you can have 
> > > "above" directives in modules.conf (or "install" directives in modprobe.conf) 
> > > to pull in the hardware drivers along with joydev.
> > 
> > Where do you get the hardware driver coming along with joydev?
> 
> By editing /etc/modules.conf

Ahh.  Hm, so you have to manually add each hardware driver to the file
to load when you want to open the joystick driver?  How 1990's :)

> > I must be missing something here...
> 
> Yes, there are non hotpluggable devices out there.
> It is easy to forget :-)

Heh, no, I remember.  I just forgot the modutils trick to do this,
sorry.

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-16 22:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-13 16:39 Input layer demand loading Fredrik Tolf
2003-07-14  6:22 ` Greg KH
2003-07-14 10:58   ` Fredrik Tolf
2003-07-16  4:29     ` Greg KH
2003-07-16 12:57       ` Fredrik Tolf
2003-07-16 16:26         ` Greg KH
2003-07-16 16:56           ` Måns Rullgård
2003-07-16 17:28           ` Oliver Neukum
2003-07-16 21:23           ` Fredrik Tolf
2003-07-16 21:54             ` Greg KH
2003-07-16 22:07               ` Oliver Neukum
2003-07-16 22:16                 ` Greg KH [this message]
2003-07-16 22:21               ` Fredrik Tolf
2003-07-16 18:19 Andrey Borzenkov
2003-07-16 18:29 ` Oliver Neukum
2003-07-16 18:33 ` Mike Fedyk

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