Re: [gentoo-dev] Kernel sources thread

[Georgi Georgiev <chutz@gg3.net>]

maillog: 22/07/2004-21:06:17(+0200): Martin Schlemmer types
> On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 22:40, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 06:34, Travis Tilley wrote:
> > > 1) udev is either ready or it isnt. the fact that you need to use a device 
> > > tarball for entries udev doesnt support shows me that it isnt ready. what's 
> > > the point of using a device management system if you're going to just dump a 
> > > bunch of extra dev entries in there anyway? if udev were ready, this wouldnt 
> > > be necessary.
> > 
> > Most of those drivers are not sysfs-aware and simply have not been
> > updated by the various authors.  Most of them are non-kernel modules,
> > such as VMware.
> > 
> 
> It really is not that difficult to patch the specific driver for
> sysfs - I did it for both nVidia and svgalib ...

You did?! Where is the patch? I have nvidia-kernel-1.0.6106, and it is still
not sysfs aware.

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