From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755322Ab0ISX17 (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Sep 2010 19:27:59 -0400 Received: from mail-iw0-f174.google.com ([209.85.214.174]:64588 "EHLO mail-iw0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753730Ab0ISX16 (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Sep 2010 19:27:58 -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=Mbb5RPhbiUoGmvf+iIvJ+mm+UEmsUJLrdbKmpBA4jcKk+kpehTVD/N3YfiH0YEXIFF GJanG3iIG/yyhqzo2z/uXdZ6BsX0n6jS+jsQR8Mzy621DCzKQXZPWcesU5JcK1xqJeAU g6s+eHm8RLWhyJ3TZDdvz3l/qWP9xL9NB3RyQ= Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 16:27:51 -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: <20100919232751.GB6565@core.coreip.homeip.net> References: <1282222699.1236.21.camel@yio.site> <20100917160554.GB14186@core.coreip.homeip.net> 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 06:59:24PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 18:05, Dmitry Torokhov > wrote: > > 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 > > Awesome! > So much for stupidly waiting-for-reply instead of just checking the reality. :) > Well, my fault really. Normally I try to let people know when I accept a patch but I neglected doing this in this case... -- Dmitry