Re: [PATCH net-next v4 0/5] bnxt_fwctl: fwctl for Broadcom Netxtreme devices

[Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>]

On Sat, Sep 27, 2025 at 02:39:25AM -0700, Pavan Chebbi wrote:
> Introducing bnxt_fwctl which follows along Jason's work [1].
> It is an aux bus driver that enables fwctl for Broadcom
> NetXtreme 574xx, 575xx and 576xx series chipsets by using
> bnxt driver's capability to talk to devices' firmware.
> 
> The first patch moves the ULP definitions to a common place
> inside include/linux/bnxt/. The second and third patches
> refactor and extend the existing bnxt aux bus functions to
> be able to add more than one auxiliary device. The last three
> patches create an additional bnxt aux device, add bnxt_fwctl,
> and the documentation.
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/0-v5-642aa0c94070+4447f-fwctl_jgg@nvidia.com/
> 
> v4: In patch #4, added the missing kfree on error for response
> buffer. Improved documentation in patch #5 based on comments
> from Dave.
> 
> v3: Addressed the review comments as below
> Patch #1: Removed redundant common.h [thanks Saeed]
> Patch #2 and #3 merged into a single patch [thanks Jonathan]
> Patch #3: Addressed comments from Jonathan
> Patch #4 and #5: Addressed comments from Jonathan and Dave
> 
> v2: In patch #5, fixed a sparse warning where a __le16 was
> degraded to an integer. Also addressed kdoc warnings for
> include/uapi/fwctl/bnxt.h in the same patch.
> 
> v1: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20250922090851.719913-1-pavan.chebbi@broadcom.com/
> 
> The following are changes since commit fec734e8d564d55fb6bd4909ae2e68814d21d0a1:
>   Merge tag 'riscv-for-linus-v6.17-rc8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux
> and are available in the git repository at:
>   https://github.com/pavanchebbi/linux/tree/bnxt_fwctl_v4
> 
> Pavan Chebbi (5):
>   bnxt_en: Move common definitions to include/linux/bnxt/
>   bnxt_en: Refactor aux bus functions to be more generic
>   bnxt_en: Create an aux device for fwctl

Like I said in v0, https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250929190601.GC324804@unreal
I think that aux logic is over engineered and shouldn't exist.

Thanks


>   bnxt_fwctl: Add bnxt fwctl device
>   bnxt_fwctl: Add documentation entries
> 
>  .../userspace-api/fwctl/bnxt_fwctl.rst        |  78 +++
>  Documentation/userspace-api/fwctl/fwctl.rst   |   1 +
>  Documentation/userspace-api/fwctl/index.rst   |   1 +
>  MAINTAINERS                                   |   6 +
>  drivers/fwctl/Kconfig                         |  11 +
>  drivers/fwctl/Makefile                        |   1 +
>  drivers/fwctl/bnxt/Makefile                   |   4 +
>  drivers/fwctl/bnxt/main.c                     | 454 ++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/debugfs.c       |   2 +-
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/main.c          |   2 +-
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/qplib_fp.c      |   2 +-
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/qplib_res.h     |   2 +-
>  drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c     |  30 +-
>  drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.h     |  12 +-
>  .../net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_devlink.c |   2 +-
>  .../net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ethtool.c |   4 +-
>  .../net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_sriov.c   |   2 +-
>  drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ulp.c | 245 +++++++---
>  .../bnxt_ulp.h => include/linux/bnxt/ulp.h    |  22 +-
>  include/uapi/fwctl/bnxt.h                     |  64 +++
>  include/uapi/fwctl/fwctl.h                    |   1 +
>  21 files changed, 858 insertions(+), 88 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/userspace-api/fwctl/bnxt_fwctl.rst
>  create mode 100644 drivers/fwctl/bnxt/Makefile
>  create mode 100644 drivers/fwctl/bnxt/main.c
>  rename drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ulp.h => include/linux/bnxt/ulp.h (87%)
>  create mode 100644 include/uapi/fwctl/bnxt.h
> 
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