On 7/17/07, Nicholas Fearnley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 17 Jul 2007, at 18:11, Tyler Trafford wrote: > > http://ivtvdriver.org/pipermail/ivtv-devel/2007-February/004501.html > > > > I think it might be a good idea for drivers that require firmware to > > delay initialization until triggered by the user. > > I agree, the budget dvb cards do just that on firing up the driver. > It's disappointing that something in the kernel *has* to be compiled > as a module, I totally understand the technical constraint in this > case though.
And this is why uevents/udev have been created and /sbin/hotplug has been deprecated. Device discovered by kernel -> uevent -> userspace (udev) listens for these on netlink -> module loaded (if not build-in) -> device created -> firmware loaded. AFAIK udev does not care whether the device is loaded as a module or build in it just handles the event and loads the needed firmware. So get rid of /sbin/hotplug ;-) Greets Sander PS: Not tested this in real life as my current setup is mythdora (horrible experience for me) and this is at kernel 2.6.20. _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel
