Re: [GIT PATCH] Remove devfs from 2.6.17

[Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>]

Hi Samuel,

> > > 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.
> 
> And vtun's script in debian doesn't, so that I had to load it by hand.
> Don't justify lack of support thanks to corrections that people had to
> add ;)
> 
> The problem I'm raising is that with udev we seem to be heading to
> asking every program to know which module it should load by hand before
> being able to use a /dev entry. This looks odd to me (why not opening
> the /dev entry itself shouldn't autoload the driver?).

I don't see any problems that every program knows what kernel module it
requires. In case of misc character devices with dynamic minor numbers,
I would actually prefer that the application or an init scripts triggers
the module loading. Unless the module is loaded, the kernel doesn't know
anything about this device.

Regards

Marcel