Re: What is evdev and autoloading?

On Sun, 2019-02-17 at 16:24 -0800, Steve Kargl wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 03:04:41PM -0800, Mark Millard wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 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
> > 
> > DESCRIPTION
> > 
> > 	evdev is an Xorg input driver for Linux's generic event
> > devices. It
> > 	therefore supports all input  devices  that  the kernel	 kn
> > ows 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.
> > 
> 
> Thanks.  Kinda odd that freebsd-current doesn't have a manual
> page, but FreeBSD-12 does.
> 

That manpage you found online is in section 4x. It probably gets
installed along with the xf86-input-evdev package.

-- Ian