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From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
To: "Patrick J. LoPresti" <patl@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: Load hid.o module synchronously?
Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 00:33:49 +0200
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Am Dienstag, 4. Mai 2004 23:56 schrieb Patrick J. LoPresti:
> Ideally, what I would like is for "modprobe <driver>" to wait until
> all hardware handled by that driver is either ready for use or is
> never going to be.  That seems simple and natural to me.  But I would

The set of devices connected to the machine is not static. Waiting until
all hardware is ready is very hard to even define.

> be glad to use any other mechanism to achieve the same effect; I just
> have not seen one yet.

Issue ioctl() USBDEVFS_CONNECT through usbfs. It does a synchronous
probe for a specific device.

	Regards
		Oliver