From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 00:42:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 00:42:38 -0400 Received: from rj.sgi.com ([204.94.215.100]:54918 "EHLO rj.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 00:42:23 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 From: Keith Owens To: David Findlay cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Bug in 2.4.9: Joydev module has incorrect version number In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 29 Aug 2001 13:35:34 +1000." <200108290336.f7T3aCIG002344@ADSL-Server.davsoft.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 14:42:21 +1000 Message-ID: <22845.999060141@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 29 Aug 2001 13:35:34 +1000, David Findlay wrote: >I am using kernel 2.4.9. All the joystick stuff is in using the M options. >When going modprobe joydev it can't find it. When using insmod to specifiy >the exact name of the file, it says that it can't find the correct kernel >version. Fixed in the -ac tree, waiting for the joystick/input mainatiner to push the changes to Linus. Prod the maintainer. >I'd also like to ask for 2.6 to have a feature that will automatically detect >all hardware, and load the correct drivers. I'm sick of having to do all >sorts of stuff to get hardware to go. Why can't it just work? Thanks, kbuild 2.5 includes CML2 which, together with Giacomo Catenazzi's autprobe code, makes it much easier to automatically build a kernel for your hardware.