Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Jul 2003 11:33:43 -0700 | From | Mike Fedyk <> | Subject | Re: Input layer demand loading |
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On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 10:19:17PM +0400, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > >> 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. > > > > Why? It could work the way PCMCIA SCSI works. > > Cardmgr loads the LLDD, but sd, sg, etc. are loaded > > on demand. > > how? SCSI (or USB, PCI, EISA etc) have driver-independent means to identify > device or at least device class. > > But how are you going you going to know you need to load specific mouse driver > (logitech not microsoft) or specific joystick flavour? All that you possibly > know that you have _some_ mouse or _some_ joystick ...
Isn't that why we have hotplug in userspace?
That way, we know we have a mouse, but it's up to userspace to find out what kind. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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