On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 16:15 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > To be able to let udev support kernel module on-demand loading, the next > kernel will export: > alias: devname:<name> > for some well-defined common kernel modules. This will let the kernel call > modprobe when the device node is accessed, the subsystem/driver will be > initialized and the open() of the device node will magically succeed.
Pulled. I will test this by pulling Greg's tree bits and hacking up a /dev with some specific node entries in it and see if modprobe gets called, etc. before I tag it. Jon. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-modules" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
