From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263673AbUEGQUb (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 May 2004 12:20:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263685AbUEGQUb (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 May 2004 12:20:31 -0400 Received: from 1-2-2-1a.has.sth.bostream.se ([82.182.130.86]:41430 "EHLO K-7.stesmi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263673AbUEGQU0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 May 2004 12:20:26 -0400 Message-ID: <409BB71F.9090601@stesmi.com> Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 18:19:43 +0200 From: Stefan Smietanowski User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040316 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Patrick J. LoPresti" CC: Oliver Neukum , Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Load hid.o module synchronously? References: <20040504200147.GA26579@kroah.com> <200405060033.49380.oliver@neukum.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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