From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271143AbTGPWDn (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2003 18:03:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271152AbTGPWBo (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2003 18:01:44 -0400 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([65.200.24.183]:51688 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271146AbTGPWBU (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2003 18:01:20 -0400 Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 15:16:13 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Oliver Neukum Cc: Fredrik Tolf , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Input layer demand loading Message-ID: <20030716221613.GA3067@kroah.com> References: <200307131839.49112.fredrik@dolda2000.cjb.net> <200307162323.31836.fredrik@dolda2000.cjb.net> <20030716215452.GB2773@kroah.com> <200307170007.04782.oliver@neukum.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200307170007.04782.oliver@neukum.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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