Re: disable probing I/O devices

On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, dmitry pervushin wrote:

> Hello all ,
> For a project I'm working on,  I need to turn off probing for input
> devices
> in Xfbdev (because it interferes with other software that uses serial
> port, I/O devices such as IrDA/modems). After looking to maillist
> archives, I found no
> standard way to do this. Have I overlooked something ? Would community
> object if I implement this feature (say, command-line switch
> "--noprobe") ?

Sounds like a good idea to me, but maybe we need a more specific name.
--noprobe should mean don't probe for video card or monitor as well as 
input.