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Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 15:50:25 -0400 From: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@...com> To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org> CC: <davem@...emloft.net>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <robh+dt@...nel.org>, <grant.likely@...aro.org>, <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>, <sandeep_n@...com> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] net: Add Keystone NetCP ethernet driver On Thursday 21 August 2014 10:48 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 11:12:41 -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. > > What are you doing to prevent/discourage proprietary binary only > sub-modules? > Not sure if you mistook this infrastructure as a replacement for the kernel module. The sub modules are traditional kernel modules that just registers into the NetCP framework. Kernel module infrastructure already discourages the proprietary binary only sub-modules. Regards, Santosh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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