Dear Michael Walle,
In message <201202242048.51624.mich...@walle.cc> you wrote:
>
> > which is why the exported funcs are "high level" and not ones that get into
> > low level stuff that would necessitate passing structs. the other problem
> > with struct passing is that they tend to break the ABI layer.
> > -mike
>
> Then i guess there is no way to support a board which has only evil closed
> source drivers for its networking card. That is, i can't export
> eth_register()
> to register my ops defined in the blob without violating the GPL.
As Mike already explained, this is correct. And it is intentional.
> Even if the headers for the "struct eth_device" were public domain, this
> mechanism would be sth like 'linking' against the uboot, wouldn't it?
Yes, indeed.
You are not supposed to mix closed-source drivers with GPL code. The
best approach is probably to re-write the drivers under GPL.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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