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Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:28:42 -0500
From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Reply-To: dtor_core@ameritech.net
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: Christmas list for the kernel
Cc: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
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On 11/22/05, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 01:31:16PM -0500, Jon Smirl wrote:
> >
> > 4) Merge klibc and fix up the driver system so that everything is
> > hotplugable. This means no more need to configure drivers in the
> > kernel, the right drivers will just load automatically.
>
> What driver subsystem is not hotplugable and does not have automatically
> loaded modules today?
>

Input core does not have modalias and needs a special handler to load
interfaces (mousedev, joydev, tsedv, evdev). But input_id is _huge_
and I am not sure that using modalias is a good idea here.

--
Dmitry
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