What is evdev and autoloading?
Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com
Sun Feb 17 23:15:00 UTC 2019
On 2019-Feb-17, at 10:03, Steve Kargl <sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
Anyone have insight into what evdev is? There appears to
be no manual page. When I reboot a system with custom
kernel, the system is autoloading evdev.ko, uhid.ko, and
wmt.ko. I do not need nor what these modules loaded.
How does one prevent this autoloading?
Looking via the web lead to:
https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=evdev&apropos=0&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+12.0-RELEASE&arch=default&format=html
So:
NAME
evdev - Generic Linux input driver
SYNOPSIS
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "devname"
Driver "evdev"
Option "Device" "devpath"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "True"
Option "Emulate3Timeout" "50"
Option "GrabDevice" "False"
...
EndSection
DESCRIPTION
evdev is an Xorg input driver for Linux's generic event devices. It
therefore supports all input devices that the kernel knows about,
including most mice, keyboards, tablets and touchscreens. evdev
is the default driver on the major Linux distributions.
. . .
but it seems to not have a 13-current entry. It does have
a 12.0-RELEASE entry.
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