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

[Kay Sievers]

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 18:05, Dmitry Torokhov
<dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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

Awesome!
So much for stupidly waiting-for-reply instead of just checking the reality. :)

Thanks,
Kay
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