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

From: Jakub Kicinski <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2023 19:53:32 -0800

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.