Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] net: Add Keystone NetCP ethernet driver

From: Stephen Hemminger
Date: Thu Aug 21 2014 - 22:48:50 EST


On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 11:12:41 -0400
Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@xxxxxx> 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?
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