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Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] Remove devfs from 2.6.17
From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
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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