Re: [PATCH] devfs support for usb joydev

From: Vojtech Pavlik (vojtech@suse.cz)
Date: Thu Mar 30 2000 - 16:10:09 EST


On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 09:27:53PM +0200, Jimmy Mäkelä wrote:

> The joydev driver for USB-joysticks hasn't got devfs support. Here is a
> patch to drivers/usb/joydev.c which fixes this. Obviously keybdev.c and
> mousedev.c should be updated too, but since I don't have any USB
> keyboards or mice I left that for someone else.

Too late, I've already sent a similar patch to Linus that adds this for
all of the *dev.c modules.

> And I've got a devfs related question too. I have got the following and
> the generic section from the sample config from devfsd in
> /etc/modules.conf:
>
> alias /dev/sound mad16
>
> And in my devfsd.conf I have got "LOOKUP .* MODLOAD", but the module
> doesn't load. If I do a "LOOKUP dsp EXECUTE modprobe -k mad16" on the
> other hand, it does work. Why is that? I thought that MODLOAD was
> supposed to work just like "EXECUTE modprobe".

Sorry, I don't use devfsd myself, so I have no experience with this.

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs

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