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Joshua Hudson wrote:
> With udev, you could mknod it yourself (in your application), then open it.
> That would fire up the auto-module-load.

Sure, but it would be even better if pointing udev to a set of modules 
(or perhaps a file generated by depmod) and have it do it all automatically.

	-hpa