Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 03 Feb 2005 13:00:29 -0800 | From | Ben Greear <> | Subject | Re: Please open sysfs symbols to proprietary modules |
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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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