RE: make kernel driver closed

2014-01-27 Thread Jeff Haran
; phani kumar; kernelnewbies Subject: Re: make kernel driver closed On Sat, 25 Jan 2014 15:43:19 +0200, Alexandru Juncu said: That is not true. Technically speaking, you could do that. Think of drivers from vmware or nvidia. The only reason NVidia gets away with it is because it's

Re: make kernel driver closed

2014-01-27 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 17:19:46 +, Jeff Haran said: There are lots of companies with closed source Linux drivers. My former employer Brocade Communications Systems wrote, maintained and shipped their Fiberchannel stack Linux drivers consisting of tens of thousands of lines of closed source

Re: make kernel driver closed

2014-01-25 Thread Richard Weinberger
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 8:12 AM, phani kumar yakkaladevi.ph...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Is there any way to make kernel driver closed(not open source)? Description: I have driver, I want make it non-open source. how can I do it? No. -- Thanks, //richard

Re: make kernel driver closed

2014-01-25 Thread Anuz Pratap Singh Tomar
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 7:12 AM, phani kumar yakkaladevi.ph...@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, Is there any way to make kernel driver closed(not open source)? Description: I have driver, I want make it non-open source. how can I do it? You shouldn't be posting such questions in this mailing list

Re: make kernel driver closed

2014-01-25 Thread Alexandru Juncu
On 25 January 2014 12:58, Richard Weinberger richard.weinber...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 8:12 AM, phani kumar yakkaladevi.ph...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Is there any way to make kernel driver closed(not open source)? Description: I have driver, I want make it non-open source

Re: make kernel driver closed

2014-01-25 Thread Richard Weinberger
Am 25.01.2014 14:43, schrieb Alexandru Juncu: On 25 January 2014 12:58, Richard Weinberger richard.weinber...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 8:12 AM, phani kumar yakkaladevi.ph...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Is there any way to make kernel driver closed(not open source

Re: make kernel driver closed

2014-01-25 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sat, 25 Jan 2014 15:43:19 +0200, Alexandru Juncu said: That is not true. Technically speaking, you could do that. Think of drivers from vmware or nvidia. The only reason NVidia gets away with it is because it's not actually a Linux driver. To save Phani the trouble, I'll point at this

make kernel driver closed

2014-01-24 Thread phani kumar
Hi all, Is there any way to make kernel driver closed(not open source)? Description: I have driver, I want make it non-open source. how can I do it? Thanks, Phanindrakumar.Y ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org http