Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 015 release

["Prakash K. Cheemplavam" <PrakashKC@gmx.de>]

Martin Schlemmer wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 19:23, Greg KH wrote:
> 
>>On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 05:45:41PM +0100, Prakash K. Cheemplavam wrote:
>>
>>>Hi Greg,
>>>
>>>perhaps you remember me being a gentoo user wanting to switch to udev. 
>>>Well I did so, but am having some problems:
>>>
>>>1.) Minor one: Nodes for Nvidia (I am using binary display modules 
>>>1.0.5328) ar not created. I have to do it by hand each start-up (written 
>>>into loacal.start.):
>>>mknod /dev/nvidia0 c 195 0
>>>mknod /dev/nvidiactl c 195 255
>>
>>Heh, and you expect me to be able to modify a binary driver to work with
>>udev how?  :)
>>
>>You're on your own here...
>>
> 
> 
> No offense, but you guys sometimes really see things as too black and
> white :)
> 
> Its only the high level api calls that are in binary object files, but
> the main interface to the kernel is source that needs compiling.  I have
> a patch attached here that adds basic sysfs support via the class_simple
> functions.

I just reemerged the nvidia-kernel which seems to incorporate your 
patcxh and yes, it works nicely. :-)

Prakash


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