On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 04:57:43PM +0200, Michael Hunold wrote: > On 10.04.2004 14:20, Indy500 wrote: > >I know this question was asked for several weeks and the only answer was > >that it will not be "that big thing" to make your drivers ready for sysfs. > > > >Meanwhile I'm using only udev and it were nice if the DVB-Drivers would > >support udev. Unfortunately I'm not a coder and not able to do this. > >Is there someone who is working on it and will be come such a driver in > >next Time? > > Of course sysfs support should be added as soon as possible to the > dvb-core, but so far nobody has volunteered to contribute a patch. AFAIK > it hasn't been specified what really should be provided through sysfs > besides the ability to load firmware.
Well, sysfs must provide the necessary information so udev can create the appropriate device nodes. I guess that's a bit more work than the usual class_simple boilerplate stuff. If someone wants to work on it, the "Device model" section of http://lwn.net/Articles/driver-porting/ has some info. Johannes -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
