Greg KH (greg@xxxxxxxxx) said: > > The issue here is that it's not *that* simple, once you > > start handling all the devices that aren't in sysfs. Moreover, > > it breaks the 'load module on device access' model. > > We've been breaking that in the kernel for years now (look at the shared > major numbers for the USB core as an example). And we have stated that > this will continue in the future, as we have shifted to a "load module > on device detection" model. Yes, but it still mostly works now. Otherwise, there wouldn't be all those MODULE_ALIAS entries in the kernel source code. *ducks* Bill
