On Thursday 20 of May 2004 15:18, Jinu M. wrote: > Hi All, Hi, > We are developing a block device driver on linux-2.6.x kernel. We want > to distribute our driver as sum of source code and librabry/object code. > > We have divided the source code into two parts. The os interface module > and the device interface module. The os interface module (osint.c) has > all the os interface functions (init, exit, open, close, ioctl, request > queue handling etc). The device interface module (devint.c) on the other > hand has all the device interface functions (initialize device, read, > write etc), these don't use system calls or kernel APIs. > > The device interface module is proprietary source and we don't intend > to distribute it with source code on GPL license. You may want to reconsider your decision. - by providing non-GPL driver your driver is very likely to not work with future kernel versions due to the fact that Linux driver API is not stable (it changes *very* frequently) - nobody is going to provide support for kernels with your driver loaded - you have to deal with bugreports about *all* Linux kernel issues from users of your driver > What we intend to do is, distribute the os interface module (osint.c) > with > source code and the device interface module as object code or library. > The > user will compile the os interface module on the target box and link it > with the device interface module to generate the .ko (loadable module). > > We are not very sure of how to achieve this. > Please help us address this issue. Please be aware of the fact that without 'giving source back' nobody is going to help you on kernel issues here. Kind regards, Bartlomiej > Thanks in advance, > -Jinu -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
