From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, pabeni@redhat.com,
edumazet@google.com
Subject: Re: [patch net-next] net: devlink: expose the info about version representing a component
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2022 08:52:18 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221107085218.490e79ed@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y2YsSfcGgrxuuivW@nanopsycho>
On Sat, 5 Nov 2022 10:26:33 +0100 Jiri Pirko wrote:
>> Didn't I complain that this makes no practical sense because
>> user needs to know what file to flash, to which component?
>> Or was that a different flag that I was complaining about?
>
> Different. That was about exposing a default component.
Oh, my bad. But I think the same justification applies here.
Overloading the API with information with no clear use seems
counter-productive to me.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-07 16:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-04 15:24 [patch net-next] net: devlink: expose the info about version representing a component Jiri Pirko
2022-11-05 2:25 ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-11-05 9:26 ` Jiri Pirko
2022-11-07 16:52 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2022-11-07 17:03 ` Jiri Pirko
2022-11-07 18:02 ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-11-08 13:06 ` Jiri Pirko
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