linux-kernel - Re: how to have the kernel do udev's job and autoload the right modules ?

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Message-ID: <5547BAD0.9070900@gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 04 May 2015 14:30:40 -0400
From:	Austin S Hemmelgarn <ahferroin7@...il.com>
To:	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
	linux cbon <linuxcbon@...il.com>,
	Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>
CC:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: how to have the kernel do udev's job and autoload the right modules
 ?

On 2015-05-04 14:21, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> Am 04.05.2015 um 19:27 schrieb linux cbon:
>> use request_module() and reinvent a userspace mini udev ? Well thats
>> above my skills,
>> and I though the kernel was more magical. Do you know why not give a
>> "minimal" network,
>>   sound, and amd video support in the kernel, so that loading those
>> modules would be optional ?
>
> You can build in the needed modules or just use udev...
>
You might consider looking into eudev, it's a Gentoo hosted fork of udev 
targeted at embedded systems, and therefore very lightweight (and it 
doesn't depend on systemd).



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