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Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 23:24:43 +0200
From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: HID bus
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On 04/22/2008 02:00 AM, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Apr 2008, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> 
>> So I suppose we still need the option to let users compile all the 
>> chosen drivers into hid.

This won't work either. It wouldn't link due to multiple definitions of 
module_init, module_exit and some module tables.

> Another possible workaround is to introduce dummy "hid" module, that will 
> just depend on all other drivers with a reference to certail symbol (and 
> this could of course be optional as CONFIG_HID_COMPAT, or whatever).

Actually this may work if we load hid_dummy by request_module from hid. I have 
no other better idea.