From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: jiri@resnulli.us, fw@strlen.de, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] drivers/net: add 6WIND SHULTI support
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 10:48:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <57231FD1.2080907@6wind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160428.115419.1831238411921569629.davem@davemloft.net>
Le 28/04/2016 17:54, David Miller a écrit :
[snip]
> You can say whatever you want, but the facilities you are adding to
> this driver enables proprietary userland SDK components.
>
> And this is precisely what we are trying to avoid by having a clean,
> fully featured switch device model in the kernel.
>
> 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 custom APIs.
Thank you,
Nicolas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-29 8:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-27 9:37 [PATCH net-next] drivers/net: add 6WIND SHULTI support Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-27 9:50 ` Jiri Pirko
2016-04-27 9:56 ` Florian Westphal
2016-04-27 15:14 ` Jiri Pirko
2016-04-27 15:38 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-27 15:54 ` Jiri Pirko
2016-04-27 16:55 ` David Miller
2016-04-27 17:07 ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-04-28 12:00 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-28 11:59 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-28 14:05 ` Or Gerlitz
2016-04-28 15:54 ` David Miller
2016-04-29 8:48 ` Nicolas Dichtel [this message]
2016-05-01 15:27 ` Jiri Pirko
2016-05-01 19:53 ` Jiri Pirko
2016-05-01 15:24 ` Jiri Pirko
2016-04-27 16:34 ` David Miller
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