On Mon, 30 Jul 2018 15:07:47 +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote:

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- find reasonable format for data transfers (e.g. eeprom dump or flash);
 I don't have clear idea how big these can get and if 64 KB limit on
 attribute size (including nested ones) is a problem; if so, dumps can
 be an answer for dumps, some kind of multi-message requests would be
 needed for flashes  

This is another thing that should go into devlink as it is not
netdev-handled. We have now a "region" facility there which can be
re-used.

+1 regions should cover the current use cases and are a better API IMHO.