Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Jul 2003 15:16:13 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: Input layer demand loading |
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On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 12:07:04AM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > > > Huh? Look at it this way: As it is now, if you have a non-hotplug joystick, > > > then you can't load anything automatically, not even the hardware drivers. > > > > Correct. > > > > > If you have demand-loading in the input layer, on the other hand, you can have > > > "above" directives in modules.conf (or "install" directives in modprobe.conf) > > > to pull in the hardware drivers along with joydev. > > > > Where do you get the hardware driver coming along with joydev? > > By editing /etc/modules.conf
Ahh. Hm, so you have to manually add each hardware driver to the file to load when you want to open the joystick driver? How 1990's :)
> > I must be missing something here... > > Yes, there are non hotpluggable devices out there. > It is easy to forget :-)
Heh, no, I remember. I just forgot the modutils trick to do this, sorry.
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