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dju`
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 Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2003 8:32 pm Post subject: kernel 2.6.0 questions |
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hello, i've just emerged 2.6.0-gentoo, and i was wondering:
1- how is fam working with this kernel? there is no imon or dnotify option, so is the USE +fam useful with 2.6?
2- do i need to emerge i2c and lm_sensors or the 2.6.0's ones are sufficient?
3- do i have to include devfs support and emerge devfs? or do i have to unmerge that and emerge udev instead? is gentoo ready for udev?
4- what is this sysfs? is this automounted by the kernel? how is it used?
thanks for your answers. |
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shm
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| Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2003 9:03 am Post subject: Re: kernel 2.6.0 questions |
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| dJu` wrote: |
3- do i have to include devfs support and emerge devfs? or do i have to unmerge that and emerge udev instead? is gentoo ready for udev? |
I've been using udev for a while. See https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=115096
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Rob1n
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| Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2003 10:35 am Post subject: Re: kernel 2.6.0 questions |
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| dJu` wrote: | | 2- do i need to emerge i2c and lm_sensors or the 2.6.0's ones are sufficient? |
You can't use the old i2c with 2.6.0, and only the recent CVS versions of lm_sensors (at last check anyway) include support for 2.6.0.
| dJu` wrote: | | 4- what is this sysfs? is this automounted by the kernel? how is it used? |
Yes, sysfs is automounted but you'll need to make sure you have a /sys directory for it to mount to. As for what it's used for, it's similar to /proc but provides direct text output for status, etc. (e.g. for your sensors output you can just cat /sys/bus/i2c/devices/*/temp_input1 for example). It's intended to split out a lot of the unnecessary stuff which has crept into /proc over the years and provide a cleaner interface to it. |
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dju`
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| Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2004 6:33 pm Post subject: |
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| thank you. any information about how fam is working with 2.6 ? |
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