netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 00/17] octeontx2-af: NPC parser and NIX blocks initialization

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Message-Id: <20181026.101947.50564596512176499.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Fri, 26 Oct 2018 10:19:47 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     arnd@...db.de
Cc:     sunil.kovvuri@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-soc@...r.kernel.org, sgoutham@...vell.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/17] octeontx2-af: NPC parser and NIX blocks
 initialization

From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2018 16:04:44 +0200

> I fear that setting a precedent of using the mbox for user-level
> configuration management would mean that we would have to
> treat each of these interfaces as an ABI, which in turn requires
> much deeper review as well as raising the fundamental question
> on how this should be done across drivers. The mailbox interface
> seem inherently nonportable to other hardware here, which is
> a significant downside.

+1