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From: Yotam Gigi <yotamg@mellanox.com>
Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 18:14:15 +0300

> Sorry, I am not sure I understand. You think that drivers should not implement
> ethtool's flash_device callback anymore? do you have an alternative for firmware
> flash?

As stated, export an MTD device.