Re: Load hid.o module synchronously?

[Stefan Smietanowski]

Hi Patrick.

> > The set of devices connected to the machine is not static. Waiting
> > until all hardware is ready is very hard to even define.
>
> It is very easy to define for 99.999% of all keyboards, which start
> off connected and stay connected.
>
> This should be simple.  I want to load a driver at boot time and wait
> until it either binds to something or fails to do so.  If the user is

But that means that the driver must include some sort of arbitrary
timelimit. Why push that from userspace to the driver?

// Stefan
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