Re: [PATCH] uinput: add devname alias to allow module on-demand load

[Dmitry Torokhov]

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 11:53:43AM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 14:58, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: uinput: add devname alias to allow module on-demand load
> >
> > Recent modprobe and udev versions allow to create device nodes
> > for modules which are not loaded. Only the first access will cause
> > the in-kernel module loader to pull-in the module. Systems which
> > never access the device node will not needlessly load the module,
> > and no longer need init scripts or other facilities to unconditionally
> > load it.
> 
> Dmitry?
> 

[dtor@hammer work]$ git describe --contains 8905aaafb4b5d9764c5b4b54c7d03eb41bb0a7e9
v2.6.36-rc3~19^2~2

;)

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Dmitry
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