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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: "Patrick J. LoPresti" <patl@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Load hid.o module synchronously?
Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 13:01:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040504200147.GA26579@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <s5ghdv0i8w4.fsf@patl=users.sf.net>

On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 09:21:31AM -0400, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
> Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> writes:
> 
> > Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
> >
> > > I see how I can scan for a USB keyboard after loading the USB host
> > > controller module.  I think.  But what do I look for, exactly, to
> > > tell when hid.o has hooked itself up to the keyboard?
> > 
> > You need to be able to tell "not hooked yet" from "never saw it" for
> > reliable operation. I don't know how to do that, sorry.
> 
> So there is no way to load this hardware driver and wait until it
> either binds or fails to bind to its associated hardware?  That seems
> like a bad bug in the design...

Um, what is wrong with the proposals I made for how you can detect this?

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-05-04 20:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-26 19:10 Load hid.o module synchronously? Patrick J. LoPresti
2004-04-26 19:40 ` Chris Friesen
2004-04-26 19:50   ` Patrick J. LoPresti
2004-04-26 20:03     ` Chris Friesen
2004-04-26 20:19     ` Greg KH
2004-04-28 14:02     ` Bill Davidsen
     [not found]       ` <mit.lcs.mail.linux-kernel/c6od9g$53k$1@gatekeeper.tmr.com>
2004-05-01 13:21         ` Patrick J. LoPresti
2004-05-01 16:43           ` Kevin P. Fleming
2004-05-04 20:01           ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-05-04 21:56             ` Patrick J. LoPresti
2004-05-04 22:35               ` Greg KH
2004-05-05  2:49                 ` Patrick J. LoPresti
2004-05-05  2:56                   ` Greg KH
2004-05-05 15:19                     ` Patrick J. LoPresti
2004-05-05 22:45                       ` Greg KH
2004-05-06 13:54                         ` Patrick J. LoPresti
2004-05-07 22:00                           ` Greg KH
2004-05-05  3:21                   ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-05-05 22:33               ` Oliver Neukum
2004-05-06 14:05                 ` Patrick J. LoPresti
2004-05-07 16:19                   ` Stefan Smietanowski
2004-05-07 17:50                     ` Oliver Neukum
2004-04-27  6:02 ` Kim Holviala

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