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From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 11:53:43 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] uinput: add devname alias to allow module on-demand load
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 14:58, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> wrote:
> From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
> 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?

Kay