init observations

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Fri Nov 18 17:29:47 UTC 2005


Alan Cox (alan at redhat.com) said: 
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 12:17:12PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > > hotplug events anyhow, so why don't we delay modprobing
> > > until after we start X, and treat them as hotplug events?
> > 
> > a) because X is dumb, and doesn't handle hotplug devices
> 
> a) if X is using /dev/input/* it doesnt need to know about the 
> base keyboard/mouse

Until the upstream input developers have their way and remove
the /dev/input/mice multiplexor. I think they've been convinced
to wait for now...

Bill




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