Messages in this thread | | | From | (Måns Rullgård) | Subject | Re: Input layer demand loading | Date | Wed, 16 Jul 2003 18:56:03 +0200 |
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Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> writes:
>> Not necessarily. When the joystick is plugged in, you want to load the >> hardware driver modules. There's really no need for the userspace interface >> until someone requests it. At least that's the way I see it. >> And in any case, even if you do want to load joydev.o when the joystick is >> plugged in, I don't see how that could be done on-demand when the joystick >> port isn't hotplug compatible, such as is the case with gameports, right? > > True, but then if you try to open the port, you will only get the base > joydev.o module loaded, not the gameport driver, which is what you > _really_ want to have loaded, right? > > So there really isn't much benifit to doing this, sorry.
That's easily fixed in modules.conf, or modprobe.conf for 2.6.
-- Måns Rullgård mru@users.sf.net
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