Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 10:48:17AM CEST, nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com wrote:

Le 28/04/2016 17:54, David Miller a écrit :
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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.