Re: Input layer demand loading

Greg KH
2003-07-16T22:03:43Z

On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 12:07:04AM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote:
>
> > > 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

Ahh. Hm, so you have to manually add each hardware driver to the file
to load when you want to open the joystick driver? How 1990's :)

> > I must be missing something here...
>
> Yes, there are non hotpluggable devices out there.
> It is easy to forget :-)

Heh, no, I remember. I just forgot the modutils trick to do this,
sorry.

greg k-h