Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 05:51:59PM CEST, kubak...@wp.pl wrote: >On Mon, 20 Jul 2020 12:09:53 +0200 Jiri Pirko wrote: >> This looks odd. You have a single image yet you somehow divide it >> into "program" and "config" areas. We already have infra in place to >> take care of this. See DEVLINK_ATTR_FLASH_UPDATE_COMPONENT. >> You should have 2 components: >> 1) "program" >> 2) "config" >> >> Then it is up to the user what he decides to flash. > >99.9% of the time users want to flash "all". To achieve "don't flash >config" with current infra users would have to flash each component
Well you can have multiple component what would overlap: 1) "program" + "config" (default) 2) "program" 3) "config" >one by one and then omit the one(s) which is config (guessing which >one that is based on the name). > >Wouldn't this be quite inconvenient? I see it as an extra knob that is actually somehow provides degradation of components. > >In case of MLX is PSID considered config? Nope.
