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