What is evdev and autoloading?
Vladimir Kondratyev
vladimir at kondratyev.su
Mon Feb 18 00:02:35 UTC 2019
On 2019-02-17 21:03, Steve Kargl 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?
> Anyone have insight into what evdev is?
evdev.ko is a small in-kernel library that makes all your input events
like keyboard presses libinput-compatible.
> I do not need nor what these modules loaded.
I think removing "option EVDEV_SUPPORT" from your kernel config should
disable most of evdev.ko dependencies
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Vladimir Kondratyev
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