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SubjectRe: [patch] drivers/usb/usb.c: auto loading of USB bus driver
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On Tue, 21 Dec 1999 12:45:06 +0100, 
Thomas Sailer <sailer@ife.ee.ethz.ch> wrote:
>> I could ask the same of scsi.c It has the same functionality. But does it
>> hurt anything?
>
>It's more code, and I can't see a benefit in it...

OTOH, adding post-install in /etc/conf.modules has to be done by every
user - manually. What's the betting that 75% will not read the docs,
15% will ignore the line that says "update conf.modules" and 2% will
make a typing error (pick your own numbers). You risk getting bug
reports against USB from people who do not RTFM.

I want to reserve conf.modules entries for machine specific entries and
optional user data, not for stuff that is always required for a
particular subsystem. If usb-uhci is always required, have the kernel
load it.

If you do not want extra kernel code, have usb-uhci export a dummy
symbol and have the other modules reference that symbol. Then the
module dependency will take care of it automatically.


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