Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752252AbaDVX4w (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Apr 2014 19:56:52 -0400 Received: from comal.ext.ti.com ([198.47.26.152]:34979 "EHLO comal.ext.ti.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750860AbaDVX4v (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Apr 2014 19:56:51 -0400 Message-ID: <535701A3.5050309@ti.com> Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 19:56:19 -0400 From: Santosh Shilimkar User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephen Hemminger CC: , , , , David Miller , Rob Herring , Grant Likely , Sandeep Nair Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] net: Add Keystone NetCP ethernet driver support References: <1398201675-17379-1-git-send-email-santosh.shilimkar@ti.com> <20140422150231.2e87b7eb@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> In-Reply-To: <20140422150231.2e87b7eb@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 22 April 2014 06:02 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Tue, 22 Apr 2014 17:21:13 -0400 > Santosh Shilimkar 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/