From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265648AbUBBIqr (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Feb 2004 03:46:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265653AbUBBIqr (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Feb 2004 03:46:47 -0500 Received: from pop.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:26809 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S265648AbUBBIqo (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Feb 2004 03:46:44 -0500 X-Authenticated: #4512188 Message-ID: <401E0E66.4040905@gmx.de> Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 09:46:30 +0100 From: "Prakash K. Cheemplavam" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Martin Schlemmer CC: Linux Kernel Mailing Lists , Sam Ravnborg , linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Greg KH , zander@mail.minion.de Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 015 release References: <20040126215036.GA6906@kroah.com> <401A8A35.1020105@gmx.de> <20040130172310.GB5265@kroah.com> <1075649046.24826.8.camel@nosferatu.lan> In-Reply-To: <1075649046.24826.8.camel@nosferatu.lan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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