Re: [RFC PATCH net-next v2 00/17] ethtool netlink interface (WiP)

[Jakub Kicinski]

On Mon, 30 Jul 2018 15:07:47 +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> >- find reasonable format for data transfers (e.g. eeprom dump or flash);
> >  I don't have clear idea how big these can get and if 64 KB limit on
> >  attribute size (including nested ones) is a problem; if so, dumps can
> >  be an answer for dumps, some kind of multi-message requests would be
> >  needed for flashes  
> 
> This is another thing that should go into devlink as it is not
> netdev-handled. We have now a "region" facility there which can be
> re-used.

+1 regions should cover the current use cases and are a better API IMHO.