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From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] drivers/net: add 6WIND SHULTI support
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 10:48:17 +0200
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Le 28/04/2016 17:54, David Miller a =E9crit :
[snip]
> You can say whatever you want, but the facilities you are adding to
> this driver enables proprietary userland SDK components.
>=20
> And this is precisely what we are trying to avoid by having a clean,
> fully featured switch device model in the kernel.
>=20
> 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 cust=
om APIs.


Thank you,
Nicolas