Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752163AbbEDHfB (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 May 2015 03:35:01 -0400 Received: from mail-vn0-f53.google.com ([209.85.216.53]:33959 "EHLO mail-vn0-f53.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751588AbbEDHez (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 May 2015 03:34:55 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 4 May 2015 09:34:54 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: how to have the kernel do udev's job and autoload the right modules ? From: Richard Weinberger To: linux cbon Cc: LKML Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1042 Lines: 28 On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 7:31 AM, linux cbon wrote: > Hi, > > I am experimenting a rc.sysinit without udev. > Only creating /dev with mount -t devtmpfs dev /dev > It also mounts /proc and /sys and /tmp and /var . > So the kernel boots up loading a lot of hardware, but some important > modules are not loaded , like sound, network and video. > I am not sure how to have them auto loaded by the kernel without udev ? > I though kernel would have some kind of auto-loading of the right > modules, without needing any help like udev. We have request_module() but it is not a magic bullet. You can re-invent a mini udev or just use udev. > I don't know the simplest and easiest way to achieve this ? > Thanks for your help. We have udev for a reason. :-) -- Thanks, //richard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/