Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 015 release

[Prakash K. Cheemplavam]

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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