Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752163AbbEFSlD (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 May 2015 14:41:03 -0400 Received: from know-smtprelay-omc-7.server.virginmedia.net ([80.0.253.71]:48107 "EHLO know-smtprelay-omc-7.server.virginmedia.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750845AbbEFSlA (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 May 2015 14:41:00 -0400 X-Originating-IP: [81.106.150.188] X-Spam: 0 X-Authority: v=2.1 cv=cpwVkjIi c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=DGj713NdaxKrsjjgQne7PA==:117 a=DGj713NdaxKrsjjgQne7PA==:17 a=J0QyKEt1u0cA:10 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=NLZqzBF-AAAA:8 a=h1PgugrvaO0A:10 a=sEjGDm9MbQSAtKq-NA0A:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 Date: Wed, 6 May 2015 19:40:58 +0100 From: Ken Moffat To: linuxcbon linuxcbon Cc: Richard Weinberger , LKML Subject: Re: how to have the kernel do udev's job and autoload the right modules ? Message-ID: <20150506184058.GA25814@milliways> References: <5547B89B.5070502@nod.at> <5547FFB8.5050007@nod.at> <20150505222644.GA27497@milliways> <20150506165556.GA23190@milliways> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 973 Lines: 21 On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 06:09:39PM +0100, linuxcbon linuxcbon wrote: > On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 5:55 PM, Ken Moffat 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 -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. -- 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/