Re: HID bus

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On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 10:30:54PM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 04/16/2008 03:31 PM, Jiri Kosina wrote:
>> Otherwise default kernel configuration might make the hardware that worked 
>> properly in previous versions not to work with new kernel.
>
> Actually I have one problem here. Autoloading. I don't have any idea how to 
> solve it. To solve it backward compatible with older userspace (if I would 
> change module-init-tools). I'm thinking only about a default-y option which 
> inhibits these drivers as a module for some time until the change gfets 
> propagated (and user decides he no longer needs it).
>
> Modules are supposed to have MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(hid, table) (which has 
> another minor issue with different buses). This won't load any module, 
> since depmod et al. don't know this device table so far.
>
> Any ideas, please?
>

When I added serio bus I had to send patches to Rusty for
module-init-tools... No way around it as far as I understand.

-- 
Dmitry
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