Re: Please open sysfs symbols to proprietary modules

[Ben Greear]

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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Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com

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