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Re: devfsd: usbmouse on /dev/input/mice

To: Joerg Sommer <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: devfsd: usbmouse on /dev/input/mice
From: Russell Coker <russell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 02:02:09 +0200
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Reply-to: Russell Coker <russell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Tue, 13 Aug 2002 01:40, you wrote:
> if I load the modules for my usb mice, I get a device /dev/input/mice.
> But devfsd searchs it on /dev/input/mouse*. So there are no modules
> loaded, if I access /dev/input/mice.
>
> I added to my modules.conf:
> alias    /dev/input      input
> probeall   /dev/input/mice mousedev usb-uhci hic
> alias    /dev/usbmouse   /dev/input/mice
>
> Why I must define /dev/input? I thought, devfsd call modprobe with the
> full path, that is requested, and not with every part. And it's nice to
> load the usb modules this way, but what's the right way?

That sounds like a reasonable suggestion.  I'll upload a new Debian package 
soon which contains that in the default config unless someone on the list has 
a better idea.

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