From: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti•com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber•org>
Cc: devicetree@vger•kernel.org, netdev@vger•kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org, Sandeep Nair <sandeep_n@ti•com>,
Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel•org>,
Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro•org>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] net: Add Keystone NetCP ethernet driver support
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 19:56:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <535701A3.5050309@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140422150231.2e87b7eb@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net>
On Tuesday 22 April 2014 06:02 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Apr 2014 17:21:13 -0400
> Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti•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
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-22 23:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-22 21:21 [PATCH 0/2] net: Add Keystone NetCP ethernet driver support Santosh Shilimkar
2014-04-22 21:21 ` [PATCH 1/2] Documentation: dt: net: Add binding doc for Keystone NetCP ethernet driver Santosh Shilimkar
2014-04-22 21:21 ` [PATCH 2/2] net: Add " Santosh Shilimkar
2014-04-24 16:47 ` David Miller
2014-04-24 21:04 ` Santosh Shilimkar
[not found] ` <1398201675-17379-1-git-send-email-santosh.shilimkar-l0cyMroinI0@public.gmane.org>
2014-04-22 22:02 ` [PATCH 0/2] net: Add Keystone NetCP ethernet driver support Stephen Hemminger
2014-04-22 23:56 ` Santosh Shilimkar [this message]
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