From: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
<devicetree@vger.kernel.org>, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>,
Sandeep Nair <sandeep_n@ti.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] net: Add Keystone NetCP ethernet driver support
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 19:56:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <535701A3.5050309@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140422150231.2e87b7eb@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net>
On Tuesday 22 April 2014 06:02 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Apr 2014 17:21:13 -0400
> Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com> wrote:
>
>> NetCP driver has a plug-in module architecture where each of the NetCP
>> sub-modules exist as a loadable kernel module which plug in to the netcp
>> core. These sub-modules are represented as "netcp-devices" in the dts
>> bindings. It is mandatory to have the ethernet switch sub-module for
>> the ethernet interface to be operational. Any other sub-module like the
>> PA is optional.
>
> Where is the implementation of these modules. You need to include
> this as separate patch set. Also the hooks for these modules should all
> be EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() to disallow proprietary modules.
>
There is no proprietary issue and all the hooks will be GPL. The plan is
to add them in another patch-set once the core driver gets merged. They need
some work to make them upstream ready.
Regards,
Santosh
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-22 23:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-22 21:21 [PATCH 0/2] net: Add Keystone NetCP ethernet driver support Santosh Shilimkar
2014-04-22 21:21 ` [PATCH 1/2] Documentation: dt: net: Add binding doc for Keystone NetCP ethernet driver Santosh Shilimkar
2014-04-22 21:21 ` [PATCH 2/2] net: Add " Santosh Shilimkar
2014-04-24 16:47 ` David Miller
2014-04-24 21:04 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2014-04-22 22:02 ` [PATCH 0/2] net: Add Keystone NetCP ethernet driver support Stephen Hemminger
2014-04-22 23:56 ` Santosh Shilimkar [this message]
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