From: Kay Sievers Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:52:28 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Input: uinput - add devname alias to allow module on-demand load X-Git-Tag: v2.6.36-rc3~19^2~2 X-Git-Url: https://openfabrics.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8905aaafb4b5d9764c5b4b54c7d03eb41bb0a7e9;p=~shefty%2Frdma-dev.git Input: uinput - add devname alias to allow module on-demand load Recent modprobe and udev versions allow to create device nodes for modules which are not loaded. Only the first access will cause the in-kernel module loader to pull-in the module. Systems which never access the device node will not needlessly load the module, and no longer need init scripts or other facilities to unconditionally load it. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov --- diff --git a/drivers/input/misc/uinput.c b/drivers/input/misc/uinput.c index bb53fd33cd1..0d4266a533a 100644 --- a/drivers/input/misc/uinput.c +++ b/drivers/input/misc/uinput.c @@ -811,6 +811,8 @@ static struct miscdevice uinput_misc = { .minor = UINPUT_MINOR, .name = UINPUT_NAME, }; +MODULE_ALIAS_MISCDEV(UINPUT_MINOR); +MODULE_ALIAS("devname:" UINPUT_NAME); static int __init uinput_init(void) { diff --git a/include/linux/miscdevice.h b/include/linux/miscdevice.h index bafffc73790..18fd13028ba 100644 --- a/include/linux/miscdevice.h +++ b/include/linux/miscdevice.h @@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ #define MWAVE_MINOR 219 /* ACP/Mwave Modem */ #define MPT_MINOR 220 #define MPT2SAS_MINOR 221 +#define UINPUT_MINOR 223 #define HPET_MINOR 228 #define FUSE_MINOR 229 #define KVM_MINOR 232 diff --git a/include/linux/uinput.h b/include/linux/uinput.h index 60c81da77f0..05f7fed2b17 100644 --- a/include/linux/uinput.h +++ b/include/linux/uinput.h @@ -37,7 +37,6 @@ #define UINPUT_VERSION 3 #ifdef __KERNEL__ -#define UINPUT_MINOR 223 #define UINPUT_NAME "uinput" #define UINPUT_BUFFER_SIZE 16 #define UINPUT_NUM_REQUESTS 16