[RFC] Loading uinput module by default in 10.10 for bluetooth devices?

Jerone Young jerone.young at canonical.com
Mon May 24 04:28:10 UTC 2010


Thanks Chase,

	I basically took what you did and proposed it here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bluez/+bug/584812

				Thanks,
					Jerone


On Sun, 2010-05-23 at 18:29 -0400, Chase Douglas wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-05-23 at 15:42 -0400, Daniel Chen wrote:
> > On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Jerone Young
> > <jerone.young at canonical.com> wrote:
> > >        I wanted to see if anyone knew anything bad about uinput kernel
> > > module?
> > 
> > I've based some things on http://codegrove.org/python-uinput/, but
> > that isn't kernelspace. :)
> > 
> > >        -) Have the bluetoothd init script try to load it
> > 
> > This approach is preferable to the /etc/modules one. There is
> > precedent (albeit possibly icky) in the cups initscript.
> 
> I also use this approach in my rinputd server application. You can find
> the code in the do_start function of my init script at:
> 
> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~chasedouglas/rinput/debian/annotate/head:/debian/rinputd.init
> 
> I don't know if this is the "preferred" way or not, but it gets the job
> done :).
> 
> -- Chase
> 






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