Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Mar 2005 10:37:52 +0800 | From | Coywolf Qi Hunt <> | Subject | Re: Can't use SYSFS for "Proprietry" driver modules !!!. |
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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?
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