[BRLTTY] buglet: uinput is not autoloaded

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Samuel Thibault on 2006/03/28 at 19:58 +0200]

>> [Brltty] mounts usbfs if it's needed but hasn't been mounted yet.
>
>BTW, it seems you haven't answer the person who was suggesting to mount
>it on the standard /proc/bus/usb place.

I don't think I ever saw that question. In any event, my answer is that I don't
think that's a good idea. It requires that /proc be already mounted. If we
don't also mount /proc then we can't mount usbfs in the standard palce, and, as
a result, brltty still can't see USB devices. If we do mount /proc then system
boot scripts are subsequently at risk of failing.

>> Perhaps /dev needs some kind of autofs-like hook so that a name,
>> if not yet defined, can be passed through udev as part of the open
>> request.
>
>Unfortunately, that's not what udev is heading for.

Why not? I know that tm/fs is used at the moment, but why should it need to
stay that way? This is a real problem which really ought to be resolved in udev
itself.

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