Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4] net: psample: Introduce stubs to remove NIC driver dependency

From: Ido Schimmel <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2021 16:42:31 +0200

On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 12:30:09PM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jan 2021 14:08:39 +0800 Chris Mi wrote:
> > Instead of discussing it several days, maybe it's better to review 
> > current patch, so that we can move forward :)
> 
> It took you 4 revisions to post a patch which builds cleanly and now
> you want to hasten the review? My favorite kind of submission.
> 
> The mlxsw core + spectrum drivers are 65 times the size of psample 
> on my system. Why is the dependency a problem?

mlxsw has been using psample for ~4 years and I don't remember seeing a
single complaint about the dependency. I don't understand why this patch
is needed.