netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/2] net: Add Keystone NetCP ethernet driver support

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Message-ID: <535701A3.5050309@ti.com>
Date:	Tue, 22 Apr 2014 19:56:19 -0400
From:	Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@...com>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
CC:	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	<devicetree@...r.kernel.org>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>,
	Sandeep Nair <sandeep_n@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] net: Add Keystone NetCP ethernet driver support

On Tuesday 22 April 2014 06:02 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Apr 2014 17:21:13 -0400
> Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@...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
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