Hi Bob, Thanks for your answer.
Actually we found another way to go. Without touching any driver for this feature. Anyway good to know, certainly will be useful in a near future. Regards, --* Josenivaldo Benito Jr.* *PU2LBD* Contact me: http://www.google.com/profiles/jrbenito *Por Aurélio Buarque de Hollanda, elite, do francês élite, significa “o que há de melhor em uma sociedade, minoria prestigiada, constituída pelos indivíduos mais aptos”. On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 12:24, Robert Beckett <robert.beck...@ziilabs.com>wrote: > Hi, > > I assume that you are referring to a proprietary licensed module that is > not built in to the kernel. > If this is the case, you wont be able to use any of the EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL > functions, so that rules out /sys. > I would use /proc to export the data to userland. > > Regards > > Bob > > > > On 21/01/11 11:35, Josenivaldo Benito Junior wrote: > > Hello, > > This is Benito from Brazil and I am work on a Android product. > > I am facing a patent issue with one driver that is not GPL. It is out of > my control to release it GPL-like (I do not own the patent) but I am > authorized to modify it to meet a feature requirement. I need to export a > information to user space (any application can read) but follow the common > way (/sys FS) will lead to GPL violation (AFAIK use kernel functions to > export in /sys will make the driver GPL too, am I wrong?). > > Does anyone have idea on how to avoid patent and GPL violation while > still export the information? > > Driver used to export this information through /dev/device_name, however > Google CTS enforced us to change /dev/device_name permission avoiding > applications to access it on behalf of normal user. > > Thanks for any direction. My new feature needs this but I don't want to > fall in a legal issue with patent holder neither GPL. > > Best regards, > --* > Josenivaldo Benito Jr.* > *PU2LBD* > Contact me: http://www.google.com/profiles/jrbenito > > *Por Aurélio Buarque de Hollanda, elite, do francês élite, significa “o > que há de melhor em uma sociedade, minoria prestigiada, constituída pelos > indivíduos mais aptos”. > > -- > unsubscribe: android-kernel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-kernel > > > -- > unsubscribe: > android-kernel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<android-kernel%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-kernel > -- unsubscribe: android-kernel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-kernel
