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

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Message-ID: <20150506184058.GA25814@milliways>
Date:	Wed, 6 May 2015 19:40:58 +0100
From:	Ken Moffat <zarniwhoop@...world.com>
To:	linuxcbon linuxcbon <linuxcbon@...il.com>
Cc:	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: how to have the kernel do udev's job and autoload the right
 modules ?

On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 06:09:39PM +0100, linuxcbon linuxcbon wrote:
> On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 5:55 PM, Ken Moffat <zarniwhoop@...world.com> wrote:
> > I suggest that you take the time to look at eudev and mdev, and
> > think about how you can use the facilities they offer.
> I was wishing the kernel would offer some minimal support for
> network, sound and full screen video for my hw :(.
> But it seems I need to load modules to achieve this. And to load modules,
>  it needs some kind of "hotplug" called udev or mdev.
> 
Because it is something that _can_ be done in userspace, so it is
done there.

ĸen
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