From: Ken Moffat <zarniwhoop@ntlworld.com>
To: linuxcbon linuxcbon <linuxcbon@gmail.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: how to have the kernel do udev's job and autoload the right modules ?
Date: Wed, 6 May 2015 19:40:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150506184058.GA25814@milliways> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ-LWjOkZLGRQVVBVUnd1BWTwD+NTsfRfJoajzLyMRCmg060Jg@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 06:09:39PM +0100, linuxcbon linuxcbon wrote:
> On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 5:55 PM, Ken Moffat <zarniwhoop@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> > I suggest that you take the time to look at eudev and mdev, and
> > think about how you can use the facilities they offer.
> I was wishing the kernel would offer some minimal support for
> network, sound and full screen video for my hw :(.
> But it seems I need to load modules to achieve this. And to load modules,
> it needs some kind of "hotplug" called udev or mdev.
>
Because it is something that _can_ be done in userspace, so it is
done there.
ĸen
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Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-06 18:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-04 5:31 linux cbon
2015-05-04 7:34 ` Richard Weinberger
2015-05-04 17:27 ` linux cbon
2015-05-04 18:21 ` Richard Weinberger
2015-05-04 18:30 ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2015-05-04 23:14 ` linux cbon
2015-05-04 23:24 ` Richard Weinberger
2015-05-05 18:08 ` linux cbon
2015-05-05 22:26 ` Ken Moffat
2015-05-06 0:54 ` linuxcbon linuxcbon
2015-05-06 16:55 ` Ken Moffat
2015-05-06 17:09 ` linuxcbon linuxcbon
2015-05-06 18:40 ` Ken Moffat [this message]
2015-05-06 18:53 ` David Lang
2015-05-06 20:34 ` linuxcbon linuxcbon
2015-05-06 20:36 ` Richard Weinberger
2015-05-06 20:49 ` David Lang
2015-05-07 12:04 ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2015-05-07 19:19 ` David Lang
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