On 7/10/2020 1:39 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jul 2020 11:16:51 -0700 Jacob Keller wrote:
>>> We already have notion of "a component" in "devlink dev flash". I think
>>> that the reset component name should be in-sync with the flash.
>>
>> Right. We should re-use the component names from devlink dev info here
>> (just as we do in devlink dev flash).
> 
> Let's remember that the SW did not eat the entire world just yet ;)
> 
> There are still HW components which don't have FW (and therefore FW
> component to flash) that folks may want to reset.. that's what the
> ethtool reset API was cut to.
> 

True enough. I was thinking only in terms of resetting to load new
firmware, which is a different but related problem.

Thanks,
Jake

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