On 03/29/05 10:37:52AM +0800, Coywolf Qi Hunt wrote: > 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?
See that 4.2M binary file called nv-kernel.o? That's the real driver, the open part is the glue, a sort of middle-ware so that the driver can be recompiled and loaded into any kernel. > > > Coywolf > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
