+-------[ Poul-Henning Kamp ]----------------------
| In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Kenneth Milton
| writes:
| >+-------[ Poul-Henning Kamp ]----------------------
| >| In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Kenneth Milton
| >| writes:
| >|
| >| >The problem turns up most violently within the XFree86 DRI Module, since
| >| >it now uses make_dev, and not mknod as it used to.
| >| >
| >| >The DRI Module first attempts to mkdir /dev/dri/, and then for each card
| >| >it supports attempts to use make_dev(9) on dri/card%d (0-whatever), I've
| >| >only got one card, so for me dri/card0.
| >|
| >| It should simply make_dev() "dri/card%d", the directory is created
| >| by devfs on demand. You should not mkdir("/dev/dri");
| >
| >Sure, how do you tell at run time whether a system is running DEVFS or not,
|
| if the sysctl variable vfs.devfs.generation exists you're running DEVFS.
|
| In the kernel you check the value of the variable "devfs_present".
|
| >There are going to be other things that assume that /dev/ is just another
| >directory and are going to try to mkdir /dev/foo.
|
| Just how did you do the mkdir ? From userland ? From the kernel ?
In this case it's done from inside a kernel module, which is loaded by
the user, i.e. not automatically loaded by XFree.
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