netdev - Re: [patch net-next] net: devlink: expose the info about version representing a component

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Date:   Mon, 7 Nov 2022 08:52:18 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net, pabeni@...hat.com,
        edumazet@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [patch net-next] net: devlink: expose the info about version
 representing a component

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.