Re: Can't use SYSFS for "Proprietry" driver modules !!!.

[Coywolf Qi Hunt]

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
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