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Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2026 08:21:41 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
Cc: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>, "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v19 0/6] net: dsa: mxl862xx: devlink flash and
 rescue
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On Sat, 3 Oct 2026 16:50:44 +0100 Daniel Golle wrote:
> This series adds "devlink dev flash" and "devlink dev info" support to
> the MaxLinear MxL862xx DSA driver, and makes a switch stuck in its
> MCUboot loader recoverable through the same path.

Please come back once you get an ack on the driver core change.
IMO this is over-complicated, mlxsw just flashes at probe, for
example. Maybe Ido and Petr have an opinion.