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On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 06:23:02AM +0900, Georgi Georgiev wrote: |
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> maillog: 18/07/2004-19:10:04(+0100): Ciaran McCreesh types |
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> > [ argh! resend to list this time... yay for inconsistent mailing list |
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> > headers and a few strange people who get upset with Cc:s :) ] |
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> > On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 13:53:52 -0400 Dylan Carlson <absinthe@g.o> |
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> > wrote: |
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> > | Do we have a plan to deprecate devfs or do we plan to support both |
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> > | udev and devfs indefinitely? If we can get some agreement on how |
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> > | profiles should be handled in the future (referencing our previous |
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> > | thread on static profiles and things like GLEP19), I think it would |
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> > | make sense to standardize on udev going forward. |
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> > Well, that can't happen across the board until 2.6.x works on |
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> > everything. OTOH, it'd be nice if we started suggesting udev (without |
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> > that wretched tarball hack) for anyone running 2.6.x. Aside from one |
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> > rather nasty 64bit-related b0rkage, udev's been doing very nicely. |
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> Regarding the wretched tarball hack. There is a suggestion at |
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> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57110 that makes the hack less wretched |
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> and even useful. I didn't dare use it before, but now: |
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> $ tar tjf /lib/udev-state/devices.tar.bz2 |
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> MAKEDEV |
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What is this still needed for? LSB stuff? |
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> video/mga_vid0 |
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> mga_vid |
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Hm, what driver needs these? These are not in the LANANA documenation |
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for device nodes. |
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> vmnet0 |
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> vmnet1 |
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> vmnet2 |
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> vmnet3 |
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> vmnet4 |
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> vmnet5 |
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> vmnet6 |
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> vmnet7 |
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> vmnet8 |
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> vmnet9 |
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I think the vmware package already creates these as my machines somehow |
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"just work" with udev and vmware today. |
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> sndstat |
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Hm, are you sure you need this? This should just work on the newer 2.6 |
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kernels. |
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> dri/card0 |
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Ah yes, DRI. What fun... |
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Anyway, the dri developers are working on this, so I'm leaving it up to |
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their very capable hands for now. |
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> All it needs is attention. |
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I agree. Bug me about this if anyone knows of any other device nodes |
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that they need (and have the hardware for) that udev doesn't currently |
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create. |
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thanks, |
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greg k-h |
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