From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jiri Slaby Subject: Re: HID bus Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:57:14 +0200 Message-ID: <480B2F9A.3020104@gmail.com> References: <1208644696-29129-1-git-send-email-jirislaby@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.159]:30061 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754480AbYDTL5Z (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Apr 2008 07:57:25 -0400 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id l27so1365804fgb.17 for ; Sun, 20 Apr 2008 04:57:24 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1208644696-29129-1-git-send-email-jirislaby@gmail.com> Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org To: Jiri Kosina Cc: Dmitry Torokhov , linux-input@vger.kernel.org, marcel@holtmann.org, mit-devel@lists.printk.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 04/20/2008 12:38 AM, Jiri Slaby wrote: > Now, I wonder for exactly what purpose are module.*map files in > /lib/modules/`uname -r`/ dir, i.e. what would break, if the devices won't > be listed there on systems with unpatched module-init-tools. Well, used by /sbin/hotplug. I.e. on systems which uses that hotplugging system and not new enough udev. It means older RHEL, SLE* et al., and older distributions too... So I suppose we still need the option to let users compile all the chosen drivers into hid.