netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] drivers/net: add 6WIND SHULTI support

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Date:	Sun, 1 May 2016 17:27:02 +0200
From:	Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:	Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, fw@...len.de,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] drivers/net: add 6WIND SHULTI support

Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 10:48:17AM CEST, nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com wrote:
>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.

I'm pretty sure that means removing the whole patch... Seriously, this
is wrong.