From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jiri Pirko Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] drivers/net: add 6WIND SHULTI support Date: Sun, 1 May 2016 17:27:02 +0200 Message-ID: <20160501152702.GB1947@nanopsycho.orion> References: <20160427151336.GB1962@nanopsycho.orion> <20160427.125506.1088576804354580011.davem@davemloft.net> <5721FB26.6070305@6wind.com> <20160428.115419.1831238411921569629.davem@davemloft.net> <57231FD1.2080907@6wind.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: David Miller , fw@strlen.de, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Nicolas Dichtel Return-path: Received: from mail-wm0-f68.google.com ([74.125.82.68]:34341 "EHLO mail-wm0-f68.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751399AbcEAP1F (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 May 2016 11:27:05 -0400 Received: by mail-wm0-f68.google.com with SMTP id n129so13741715wmn.1 for ; Sun, 01 May 2016 08:27:04 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <57231FD1.2080907@6wind.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: =46ri, Apr 29, 2016 at 10:48:17AM CEST, nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com wrote= : >Le 28/04/2016 17:54, David Miller a =E9crit : >[snip] >> You can say whatever you want, but the facilities you are adding to >> this driver enables proprietary userland SDK components. >>=20 >> And this is precisely what we are trying to avoid by having a clean, >> fully featured switch device model in the kernel. >>=20 >> It is against your interestes of upstreaming your driver to continue >> denying what your changes facilitate. >Ok, I will rework this patch to remove the controversial parts and cus= tom APIs. I'm pretty sure that means removing the whole patch... Seriously, this is wrong.