From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marcel Holtmann Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 09:30:31 +0000 Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] Remove devfs from 2.6.17 Message-Id: <1150709431.4277.4.camel@localhost> List-Id: References: <20060618221343.GA20277@kroah.com> <20060618230041.GG4744@bouh.residence.ens-lyon.fr> <20060618231204.GB2212@suse.de> <20060618233508.GH4744@bouh.residence.ens-lyon.fr> <20060619032259.GB4651@suse.de> <20060619082355.GE4253@implementation.labri.fr> In-Reply-To: <20060619082355.GE4253@implementation.labri.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Samuel Thibault Cc: Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, greg@kroah.com, linux-hotplug-devel@vger.kernel.org Hi Samuel, > > Or just tell your users to make sure that they have the uinput driver > > loaded, > > They can't, since without it they can't even type things. if you install a program or a driver that needs uinput loaded, then you have a clean requirement. So simply add a "modprobe uinput" to its init script. Look at the TUN/Tap driver which has the same problem. The boot up scripts of various daemons (for example OpenVPN etc.) are making sure that the driver is loaded. Regards Marcel _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel