From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755610Ab0IQQGE (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Sep 2010 12:06:04 -0400 Received: from mail-pw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.160.46]:55245 "EHLO mail-pw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755497Ab0IQQGC (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Sep 2010 12:06:02 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=hfU8kCUutnRiVDqDCiUNRrrZLrut51m3kah0Ffkq/zJGhymqvpAqgTnMC0wKrHsXrn ZQ/WKbwQWoH2QXy3wFKXPE8MB6KHtn6KAzeanveYSqTL0qK+ZIXBg+DKiq0h4YiE9nP1 B6XP/oF8eGfZ2CrW2oq05y6e1YEQdzGA7S+WQ= Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 09:05:55 -0700 From: Dmitry Torokhov To: Kay Sievers Cc: linux-kernel Subject: Re: [PATCH] uinput: add devname alias to allow module on-demand load Message-ID: <20100917160554.GB14186@core.coreip.homeip.net> References: <1282222699.1236.21.camel@yio.site> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-12-10) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 11:53:43AM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 14:58, Kay Sievers wrote: > > From: Kay Sievers > > 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