From: Stefan Smietanowski <stesmi@stesmi.com>
To: "Patrick J. LoPresti" <patl@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Load hid.o module synchronously?
Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 18:19:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <409BB71F.9090601@stesmi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <s5gekpxslti.fsf@patl=users.sf.net>
Hi Patrick.
>>The set of devices connected to the machine is not static. Waiting
>>until all hardware is ready is very hard to even define.
>
> It is very easy to define for 99.999% of all keyboards, which start
> off connected and stay connected.
>
> This should be simple. I want to load a driver at boot time and wait
> until it either binds to something or fails to do so. If the user is
But that means that the driver must include some sort of arbitrary
timelimit. Why push that from userspace to the driver?
// Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-07 16:20 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
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 [this message]
2004-05-07 17:50 ` Oliver Neukum
2004-04-27 6:02 ` Kim Holviala
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