[BRLTTY] buglet: uinput is not autoloaded

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Tue Mar 28 13:51:58 EST 2006


Dave Mielke, le Tue 28 Mar 2006 13:44:26 -0500, a écrit :
> >> 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.

Well, I'll probably start a discussion with kernel people themselves ;)

They're focused on a device-driven udev, and don't see special cases
like udev.

Regards,
Samuel


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