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Re: Attaching to an attribute
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
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