Re: [PATCH] remove input_call_hotplug (Take#2)

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Jan 19 2005 - 17:26:22 EST


On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 02:48:14PM +0100, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> Hi Dmitry,
>
> attached is the reworked patch for removing the call to
> call_usermodehelper from input.c
> I've used the 'phys' attribute to generate the device names, this way we
> don't need to touch all drivers and the patch itself is nice and small.

The main problem of this is the input_dev structures are created
statically, right? Because of this, the release function really doesn't
work out correctly I think....

Other than that this looks a lot better.

Hm, you're still generating hotplug events with this patch of the
"input_device" type, right?

thanks,

greg k-h
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