Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 4 May 2015 09:34:54 +0200 | Subject | Re: how to have the kernel do udev's job and autoload the right modules ? | From | Richard Weinberger <> |
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On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 7:31 AM, linux cbon <linuxcbon@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am experimenting a rc.sysinit without udev. > Only creating /dev with mount -t devtmpfs dev /dev > It also mounts /proc and /sys and /tmp and /var . > So the kernel boots up loading a lot of hardware, but some important > modules are not loaded , like sound, network and video. > I am not sure how to have them auto loaded by the kernel without udev ? > I though kernel would have some kind of auto-loading of the right > modules, without needing any help like udev.
We have request_module() but it is not a magic bullet. You can re-invent a mini udev or just use udev.
> I don't know the simplest and easiest way to achieve this ? > Thanks for your help.
We have udev for a reason. :-)
-- Thanks, //richard
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