netdev - Re: [net 09/15] net/mlx5e: Forbid devlink reload if IPSec rules are offloaded

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Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2023 19:53:32 -0800
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
Cc: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>, Saeed Mahameed <saeed@...nel.org>, "David
 S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Eric
 Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...dia.com>,
 netdev@...r.kernel.org, Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...dia.com>, Jianbo Liu
 <jianbol@...dia.com>
Subject: Re: [net 09/15] net/mlx5e: Forbid devlink reload if IPSec rules are
 offloaded

On Wed, 22 Nov 2023 13:28:32 +0200 Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> Unfortunately not, we (mlx5) were forced by employer of one of
> the netdev maintainers to keep uplink netdev in devlink reload
> while we are in eswitch.

The way you phrased this makes it sound like employers of netdev
maintainers get to exert power over this community.

This is an unacceptable insinuation.

DEVLINK_RELOAD_LIMIT_NO_RESET should not cause link loss, sure.
Even if Meta required that you implemented that (which it does
not, AFAIK) - it's just an upstream API.