Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751910AbWJIWxc (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Oct 2006 18:53:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751912AbWJIWxb (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Oct 2006 18:53:31 -0400 Received: from pne-smtpout4-sn1.fre.skanova.net ([81.228.11.168]:8446 "EHLO pne-smtpout4-sn1.fre.skanova.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751910AbWJIWx3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Oct 2006 18:53:29 -0400 Message-ID: <452AD2D9.3090001@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 01:53:13 +0300 From: Anssi Hannula User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060915) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dmitry Torokhov CC: "raise.sail@gmail.com" , greg , Randy Dunlap , LKML , linux-usb-devel Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] [PATCH] usb/hid: The HID Simple Driver Interface 0.3.2 (core) References: <200609291624123283320@gmail.com> <45286B85.90402@gmail.com> <452948AD.8030600@gmail.com> <200610082342.26110.dtor@insightbb.com> In-Reply-To: <200610082342.26110.dtor@insightbb.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1415 Lines: 37 Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > 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 :( > How so? I see nothing obvious. -- Anssi Hannula - 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/