netdev - Re: [PATCH v9 net-next 13/14] pds_core: publish events to the clients

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Message-ID: <20230413101015.0427a6c8@kernel.org>
Date:   Thu, 13 Apr 2023 10:10:15 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
Cc:     Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@....com>, brett.creeley@....com,
        davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, drivers@...sando.io,
        jiri@...nulli.us
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 net-next 13/14] pds_core: publish events to the
 clients

On Thu, 13 Apr 2023 20:07:04 +0300 Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > Hm, my memory may be incorrect and I didn't look at the code but 
> > I thought that knob came from the "hit-less upgrade" effort.
> > And for "hit-less upgrade" not respawning the devices was the whole
> > point.
> > 
> > Which is not to disagree with you. What I'm trying to get at is that
> > there are different types of reset which deserve different treatment.  
> 
> I don't disagree with you either, just have a feeling that proposed
> behaviour is wrong.

Shannon, can you elaborate on what the impact of the reset is?
What loss of state and/or configuration is possible?