Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751621AbWJIDm3 (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Oct 2006 23:42:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751622AbWJIDm3 (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Oct 2006 23:42:29 -0400 Received: from gateway.insightbb.com ([74.128.0.19]:40547 "EHLO asav10.insightbb.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751619AbWJIDm2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Oct 2006 23:42:28 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AR4FAKphKUWBTg From: Dmitry Torokhov To: Anssi Hannula Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] [PATCH] usb/hid: The HID Simple =?iso-8859-1?q?Driver=09Interface_0=2E3=2E2?= (core) Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 23:42:25 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 Cc: "raise.sail@gmail.com" , greg , Randy Dunlap , LKML , linux-usb-devel References: <200609291624123283320@gmail.com> <45286B85.90402@gmail.com> <452948AD.8030600@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <452948AD.8030600@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610082342.26110.dtor@insightbb.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1336 Lines: 33 On Sunday 08 October 2006 14:51, Anssi Hannula wrote: > (I didn't get Dmitry's original mail, so replying here) > > raise.sail@gmail.com wrote: > > Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > >> Then there is issue with automatic loading of these sub-drivers. How > >> do they get loaded? Or we force everything to be built-in making HID > >> module very fat (like psmouse got pretty fat, but with HID prtential > >> for it to get very fat is much bigger). > >> > >> The better way would be to split hid-input into a library module that > >> parses hid usages and reports and is shared between device-specific > >> modules that are "real" drivers (usb-drivers, not hid-sub-drivers). > > One possibility is to do that with symbol_request() and friends. That > would not be pretty though, imho. > > DVB subsystem uses that currently to load frontend modules dynamically, > see dvb_attach() and dvb_frontend_detach() in > drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvbdev.h and > drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c. > Unfortunately this does not quite work when hid is built-in and the rest are modules :( -- Dmitry - 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/