hotplug and fallback input devices

Julien Cristau jcristau at debian.org
Wed Jul 30 02:20:19 PDT 2008


On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 23:01:17 +0300, Daniel Stone wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 09:09:05PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > The more I think about it the less I
> > understand why turning AllowEmptyInput on implicitly is the right thing
> > to do at all…
> 
> Because I live in a dream world where people actually use hotplug,
> rather than patch it out.
> 
I guess I just don't understand what removing the fallback devices
fixes, it just makes things more fragile as far as I can see.  The
hotplugged drivers should grab the devices anyway so the fallbacks would
just be useless in that case, right?

Cheers,
Julien



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