Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262157AbVC2CjH (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Mar 2005 21:39:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262158AbVC2CjH (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Mar 2005 21:39:07 -0500 Received: from everest.2mbit.com ([24.123.221.2]:42424 "EHLO mail.sosdg.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262157AbVC2CjA (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Mar 2005 21:39:00 -0500 Message-ID: <4248BF80.7090805@lovecn.org> Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 10:37:52 +0800 From: Coywolf Qi Hunt User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050116) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lee Revell CC: Greg KH , Mark Fortescue , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20050326182828.GA8540@kroah.com> <1111869274.32641.0.camel@mindpipe> In-Reply-To: <1111869274.32641.0.camel@mindpipe> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Broken-Reverse-DNS: no host name for for IP address 218.24.178.157 X-Scan-Signature: 2ecaae6c9cc520cc6f18c499896ec795 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 218.24.178.157 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: coywolf@lovecn.org Subject: Re: Can't use SYSFS for "Proprietry" driver modules !!!. X-Spam-Report: * -4.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0000] * 4.0 RCVD_IN_AHBL_CNKR RBL: AHBL: sender is listed in the AHBL China/Korea blocks * [218.24.178.157 listed in cnkrbl.ahbl.org] * 0.7 PLING_PLING Subject has lots of exclamation marks X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2 (built Sun, 13 Feb 2005 18:23:43 -0500) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1430 Lines: 36 Lee Revell wrote: > On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 10:28 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > >>On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 05:52:20PM +0000, Mark Fortescue wrote: >> >>>I am writing a "Proprietry" driver module for a "Proprietry" PCI card and >>>I have found that I can't use SYSFS on Linux-2.6.10. >>> >>>Why ?. >> >>What ever gave you the impression that it was legal to create a >>"Proprietry" kernel driver for Linux in the first place. > > > The fact that Nvidia and ATI get away with it? I have the nvidia GeForce4 driver: NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1. $ ls NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1/usr/src/nv/ Makefile@ makedevices.sh* nv-vm.c nv_compiler.h os-agp.c os-registry.c Makefile.kbuild makefile nv-vm.h nvidia.ko os-agp.h os-registry.o Makefile.nvidia nv-kernel.o nv-vm.o nvidia.mod.c os-agp.o pat.h README nv-linux.h nv.c nvidia.mod.o os-interface.c precompiled/ conftest.sh nv-memdbg.h nv.h nvidia.o os-interface.h rmretval.h gcc-version-check.c nv-misc.h nv.o nvtypes.h os-interface.o So it seems nvidia has their kernel module `open'. Is it? Coywolf - 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/