Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271021AbTGPSHe (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2003 14:07:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270977AbTGPSFn (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2003 14:05:43 -0400 Received: from hueytecuilhuitl.mtu.ru ([195.34.32.123]:10507 "EHLO hueymiccailhuitl.mtu.ru") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271040AbTGPSDk (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2003 14:03:40 -0400 From: Andrey Borzenkov To: Oliver Neukum Subject: Re: Input layer demand loading Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 22:19:17 +0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200307162219.17067.arvidjaar@mail.ru> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 943 Lines: 23 >> True, but then if you try to open the port, you will only get the base >> joydev.o module loaded, not the gameport driver, which is what you >> _really_ want to have loaded, right? >> >> So there really isn't much benifit to doing this, sorry. > > Why? It could work the way PCMCIA SCSI works. > Cardmgr loads the LLDD, but sd, sg, etc. are loaded > on demand. how? SCSI (or USB, PCI, EISA etc) have driver-independent means to identify device or at least device class. But how are you going you going to know you need to load specific mouse driver (logitech not microsoft) or specific joystick flavour? All that you possibly know that you have _some_ mouse or _some_ joystick ... -andrey - 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/