netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 2/2] ionic: add devlink firmware update

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Date:   Wed, 09 Sep 2020 14:30:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     snelson@...sando.io
Cc:     kuba@...nel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 2/2] ionic: add devlink firmware update

From: Shannon Nelson <snelson@...sando.io>
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2020 10:58:19 -0700

> I'm suggesting that this implementation using the existing devlink
> logging services should suffice until someone can design, implement,
> and get accepted a different bit of plumbing.  Unfortunately, that's
> not a job that I can get to right now.

Sorry, this is not how we operate.

If you do things that way you will have to support the "temporary"
solution forever in order to not break user facing interfaces.

That misses the whole point of doing it properly.