Re: Can't use SYSFS for "Proprietry" driver modules !!!.

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?

Lee

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