From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Cc: Joseph Pingenot <trelane@digitasaru.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>
Subject: Re: Please open sysfs symbols to proprietary modules
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 20:57:36 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050203045736.GA17820@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0502021950040.19812@localhost.localdomain>
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 08:13:15PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote:
>
> I won't open all details, but suppose I want the bridge to handle certain
> frames in a special way, just like BPDU frames are handled if STP is
> enabled. There is a hook for that already - see br_handle_frame_hook.
> The proprietary module would just have to change it.
Why use Linux if you want to make a proprietary module? Why not use
another operating system that is more suited toward such usage. The
Linux kernel certainly is not such a system.
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-03 5:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-02 22:56 Please open sysfs symbols to proprietary modules Pavel Roskin
2005-02-02 23:07 ` Greg KH
2005-02-02 23:23 ` Patrick Mochel
2005-02-02 23:29 ` Greg KH
2005-02-03 0:07 ` Pavel Roskin
2005-02-03 0:30 ` Greg KH
2005-02-03 4:54 ` Zan Lynx
2005-02-03 5:07 ` Greg KH
2005-02-03 8:59 ` Helge Hafting
2005-02-03 15:12 ` Alan Cox
2005-02-03 17:26 ` Theodore Ts'o
2005-02-03 13:47 ` linux-os
2005-02-04 16:05 ` David Woodhouse
2005-02-03 0:09 ` Joseph Pingenot
2005-02-03 1:13 ` Pavel Roskin
2005-02-03 2:50 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-02-03 3:17 ` Jon Masters
2005-02-06 7:24 ` Lee Revell
2005-02-07 16:05 ` Chris Friesen
2005-02-07 16:55 ` linux-os
2005-02-07 18:58 ` jerome lacoste
2005-02-07 19:35 ` linux-os
2005-02-07 16:55 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-02-08 1:40 ` Horst von Brand
2005-02-03 4:57 ` Greg KH [this message]
2005-02-03 8:41 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-02-03 21:00 ` Ben Greear
2005-02-04 9:20 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-04 9:40 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-02-15 1:41 ` Alan Cox
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-02-03 4:08 Jonathan A. George
2005-02-03 5:07 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-02-03 12:30 Jonathan A. George
2005-02-04 15:16 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-02-17 23:13 parker
2005-02-18 3:32 ` Chris Friesen
2005-02-18 13:13 ` Arjan van de Ven
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