Re: [PATCH net-next] netdevsim: Register and unregister devlink traps on probe/remove device

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Tue Oct 26 2021 - 15:02:41 EST


On Tue, 26 Oct 2021 19:14:58 +0300 Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > By now I have spent more time arguing with you than you spent testing
> > your patches and it's clear this discussion is not going anywhere.
> >
> > Are you going to send a revert or I will? This is the fourth time I'm
> > asking you.
>
> I understand your temptation to send revert, at the end it is the
> easiest solution. However, I prefer to finish this discussion with
> decision on how the end result in mlxsw will look like.
>
> Let's hear Jiri and Jakub before we are rushing to revert something that
> is correct in my opinion. We have whole week till merge window, and
> revert takes less than 5 minutes, so no need to rush and do it before
> direction is clear.

Having drivers in a broken state will not be conducive to calm discussions.
Let's do a quick revert and unbreak the selftests.

Speaking under correction, but the model of operation where we merge
patches rather quickly necessarily must also mean we are quick to
revert changes which broke stuff if the fix is not immediately obvious
or disputed.