From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Please open sysfs symbols to proprietary modules
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 13:00:29 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <420290ED.8020302@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0502021723280.5515@localhost.localdomain>
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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-03 21:00 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
2005-02-03 8:41 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-02-03 21:00 ` Ben Greear [this message]
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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