From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271148AbTGPVyw (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2003 17:54:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271144AbTGPVyR (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2003 17:54:17 -0400 Received: from Mail1.kontent.de ([81.88.34.36]:57260 "EHLO Mail1.KONTENT.De") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271148AbTGPVyA (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2003 17:54:00 -0400 From: Oliver Neukum To: Greg KH , Fredrik Tolf Subject: Re: Input layer demand loading Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 00:07:04 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200307131839.49112.fredrik@dolda2000.cjb.net> <200307162323.31836.fredrik@dolda2000.cjb.net> <20030716215452.GB2773@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20030716215452.GB2773@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200307170007.04782.oliver@neukum.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > 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 > I must be missing something here... Yes, there are non hotpluggable devices out there. It is easy to forget :-) Regards Oliver