Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265055AbTF1Alg (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jun 2003 20:41:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265054AbTF1Alc (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jun 2003 20:41:32 -0400 Received: from [62.81.235.114] ([62.81.235.114]:29412 "EHLO smtp14.eresmas.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265053AbTF1AlZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jun 2003 20:41:25 -0400 Message-ID: <3EFCE775.7060004@wanadoo.es> Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 02:55:17 +0200 From: Xose Vazquez Perez User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 X-Accept-Language: gl, es, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gpc01532@hotmail.com, linux-kernel Subject: Re:How to Avoid GPL Issue X-Enigmail-Version: 0.63.3.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 3.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 837 Lines: 21 Dear Sir or Madam, >We are trying to port a third party hardware driver into Linux kernel and >this third party vendor does not allow us to publish the source code. Is >there any approach that we can avoid publicizing the third party code while >porting to Linux? Do we need to write some shim layer code in Linux kernel >to interface the third party code? How can we do that? Is there any document >or samples? You should begin reading 'Proprietary kernel modules' at http://people.redhat.com/rkeech/pkm.html regards, -- I don't even see the code. All I see is blonde, brunette, redhead. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/