Re: [PATCH 2.6.12-rc4] Add EXPORT_SYMBOL for hotplug_path

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Fri May 20 2005 - 00:19:44 EST


On Friday 20 May 2005 00:18, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 09:43:23AM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> > If CONFIG_INPUT is set as a module, it will not load as hotplug_path is
> > not a defined symbol. Trivial fix is to EXPORT_SYMBOL hotplug_path.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Ick, no, I thought we got rid of that usage. no one should be calling
> hotplug on their own, lots of bad things happen to udevd and HAL if they
> do.
>
> What caused the input code to be added back into the kernel? I'll try
> to go track that down...
>

The change never made it into the kernel. And I need to finish proper
input_dev sysfs conversion...

--
Dmitry
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