Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 3/3] nfp: devlink: allow flashing the device via devlink

From: Jiri Pirko <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 10:19:42 +0100

Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 04:44:29PM CET, [email-masked] wrote:
>On Fri, 15 Feb 2019 11:15:14 +0100, Jiri Pirko wrote:
>> > static const struct ethtool_ops nfp_net_ethtool_ops = {  
>> 
>> Why don't you use the compat fallback? I think you should.
>
>You and Michal both asked the same so let me answer the first to ask :)
>- if devlink is built as a module the fallback is not reachable.

So the fallback is not really good as you can't use it for real drivers
anyway. Odd. Maybe we should compile devlink in without possibility to
have it as module.