Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262684AbVCPQwL (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Mar 2005 11:52:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262682AbVCPQwL (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Mar 2005 11:52:11 -0500 Received: from hobbit.corpit.ru ([81.13.94.6]:18016 "EHLO hobbit.corpit.ru") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262686AbVCPQwB (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Mar 2005 11:52:01 -0500 Message-ID: <4238642F.9080701@tls.msk.ru> Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 19:51:59 +0300 From: Michael Tokarev User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050116) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kernel Mailing List Subject: psmouse et al and mousedev dependancy X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 705 Lines: 23 A quick (hopefully) question. When mousedev is compiled as a module, loading psmouse or usbhid modules does not enable the mouse, one have to load mousedev too. The same is true for keybdev and actual keyboard drivers. Why not add this dependancy explicitly in psmouse et al modules, something like (pseudocode): #if CONFIG_MOUSEDEV==m request_module(mousedev); #endif , or, to "use" some symbol in psmouse.ko which is defined in mousedev? Thanks. /mjt - 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/