From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
To: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] uinput: add devname alias to allow module on-demand load
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 09:05:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100917160554.GB14186@core.coreip.homeip.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikpCt-RjK87qb0cwdu_uUSfR-Dn_0d5PYhETM5T@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 11:53:43AM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 14:58, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> wrote:
> > From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
> > Subject: uinput: add devname alias to allow module on-demand load
> >
> > Recent modprobe and udev versions allow to create device nodes
> > for modules which are not loaded. Only the first access will cause
> > the in-kernel module loader to pull-in the module. Systems which
> > never access the device node will not needlessly load the module,
> > and no longer need init scripts or other facilities to unconditionally
> > load it.
>
> Dmitry?
>
[dtor@hammer work]$ git describe --contains 8905aaafb4b5d9764c5b4b54c7d03eb41bb0a7e9
v2.6.36-rc3~19^2~2
;)
--
Dmitry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-17 16:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-19 12:58 Kay Sievers
2010-09-17 9:53 ` Kay Sievers
2010-09-17 16:05 ` Dmitry Torokhov [this message]
2010-09-17 16:59 ` Kay Sievers
2010-09-19 23:27 ` Dmitry Torokhov
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