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> So, is this just not going to be acceptable in any form? What about
> refactoring the existing drivers that do this so that this code
> doesn't need to be repeated in every driver, if that would help? I'd
> really quite like to get standard linux distros to be compatible with
> the Joggler, and this is one of the few changes that's actually needed
> (one way or another).

It ought to be about a ten line change in Red Hat/Fedora, you could also
do it generically for most distributions as a udev rule.

Alan