Re: 2.6 and devfsd

2004-01-13 Thread Nitebirdz
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 10:23:58PM +0100, John L. Fjellstad wrote: > > You're missing my point. I'm not saying deprecated means anything else that > what you wrote above, but I do disagree with you that sysfs/udev is a > replacement for devfs right *now*. As your link indicate, udev won't be > rea

Re: 2.6 and devfsd

2004-01-13 Thread John L. Fjellstad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nitebirdz wrote: > OK, let me clarify then. Deprecated doesn't mean it doesn't work, but it > does mean it is not actively maintained anymore and/or only major bug > fixes > will happpen. That appears to be the consensus whenever the issue is > rais

Re: 2.6 and devfsd

2004-01-11 Thread Nitebirdz
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 05:38:15PM +0100, John L. Fjellstad wrote: > Nitebirdz wrote: > > > Yes, devfs is considered to be deprecated in the 2.6 kernel and it has > > been > > replaced with sysfs and udev. > > sysfs/udev is not a replacement for devfs yet. Not everything that needs to > be move

Re: 2.6 and devfsd

2004-01-11 Thread John L. Fjellstad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nitebirdz wrote: > Yes, devfs is considered to be deprecated in the 2.6 kernel and it has > been > replaced with sysfs and udev. sysfs/udev is not a replacement for devfs yet. Not everything that needs to be moved to sysfs has been moved to sysfs.

Re: 2.6 and devfsd

2004-01-11 Thread John L. Fjellstad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan Chandler wrote: > The second problem is establishing /dev/psaux. In the end I have manually > loaded module "psmouse". This seems a new name to me, and therefore there > is presumably a file somewhere that should cause this module to be loaded

Re: 2.6 and devfsd

2004-01-11 Thread Alan Chandler
On Sunday 11 January 2004 06:39, Nitebirdz wrote: > > Yes, devfs is considered to be deprecated in the 2.6 kernel and it has been > replaced with sysfs and udev. I guess ultimately what is important is the "debian" support for these. I see there is a sysfsutils package, but little else at the m

Re: 2.6 and devfsd

2004-01-10 Thread Nitebirdz
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 11:30:05PM +, Alan Chandler wrote: > On Saturday 10 January 2004 22:47, Nate Duehr wrote: > > On Saturday, Jan 10, 2004, at 15:38 America/Denver, Alan Chandler wrote: > > > > Isn't devfs deprecated in 2.6 completely? > > Maybe, but there is clearly legacy support - my /

Re: 2.6 and devfsd

2004-01-10 Thread Alan Chandler
On Saturday 10 January 2004 22:47, Nate Duehr wrote: > On Saturday, Jan 10, 2004, at 15:38 America/Denver, Alan Chandler wrote: > > HOWEVER I think there are a number of module name changes that seem to > > screw > > up devfs > > Isn't devfs deprecated in 2.6 completely? Maybe, but there is clearl

Re: 2.6 and devfsd

2004-01-10 Thread Nate Duehr
On Saturday, Jan 10, 2004, at 15:38 America/Denver, Alan Chandler wrote: HOWEVER I think there are a number of module name changes that seem to screw up devfs Isn't devfs deprecated in 2.6 completely? The first problem is establishing /dev/agpgart. This no longer happens despite manually loadin

2.6 and devfsd

2004-01-10 Thread Alan Chandler
Earlier I reported that I couldn't get my nvidia driver started up under 2.6 I rebuilt the source being careful, and that seems to have fixed my undefined symbols problem HOWEVER I think there are a number of module name changes that seem to screw up devfs The first problem is establishing /de