Re: Attaching to an attribute

[Valery Ushakov <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost>]

On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 04:29:49 +0300, Valery Ushakov wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 23:07:47 +0300, Valery Ushakov wrote:
> 
> > However config(1) instead of providing single wildcard parent spec
> > seems to instantiate parent specs for all parents it's seen that carry
> > the attribute.
> 
> Bah, my emacs has too many buffers.  Apparently I was looking at the
> kernel config from a different architecture.
> 
> Astonishingly, i386 and amd64 GENERIC do _not_ have
> 
>   wsmouse* at wsmousedev?
> 
> wildcard attachment and instead use separate attachments for each
> parent.  I'm overcome with nostalgy, but this probably should be
> fixed, it's not 1990s anymore.

This, however, still highlights a problem.  How can a module device
driver attach wsmouse as a child regardless of how the kernel is
configured.

-uwe