Re: Please open sysfs symbols to proprietary modules
From: Ben Greear
Date: Thu Feb 03 2005 - 16:03:55 EST
Pavel Roskin wrote:
All I want to do is to have a module that would create subdirectories
for some network interfaces under /sys/class/net/*/, which would contain
additional parameters for those interfaces. I'm not creating a new
subsystem or anything like that. sysctl is not good because the data is
interface specific. ioctl on a socket would be OK, although it wouldn't
be easily scriptable. The restriction on sysfs symbols would just force
me to write a proprietary userspace utility to set those parameters
instead of using a shell script.
How about /proc/net/pavelStuff
Still scriptable, and does not require GPL symbols....
Ben
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Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
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