Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 02 Feb 2004 09:46:30 +0100 | From | "Prakash K. Cheemplavam" <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 015 release |
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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. :-)
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