On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 06:09:39PM +0100, linuxcbon linuxcbon wrote: > On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 5:55 PM, Ken Moffat <zarniwh...@ntlworld.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.
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