On Mon, 27 Nov 2023 11:34:39 +0530 Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote: > I think you made up your mind that this driver is exposing the network interface > to the firmware on the device. I ought to clearify that the device running this > driver doesn't necessarily be a modem but a PCIe endpoint instance that uses the > netdev exposed by this driver to share data connectivity with another device. Doesn't matter how many legit use cases you can come up with. Using netdev as a device comm channel is something I am fundamentally opposed to. > This concept is not new and being supported by other protocols such as Virtio > etc... Yes. Use virtio, please.