seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach) writes:

> In an ideal world, I would find a hook to let me tell the kernel to, when it
> gets a moment, re-do the mouse's "attach" routine, in some way, but I don't
> know what the mechanism would be.

The current mechanism for doing this is to create a kernel thread; see
kthread_create(9), and some of the drivers that do this already, like
the USB system.

It's kind of heavyweight for the occasional "we want to do something
in process context", but it's what we have for now.

        - Nathan