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From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
To: intel-wired-lan@osuosl.org
Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH 3/4] devlink: add support for triggering snapshots from userspace
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2020 19:58:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200109185843.GI2235@nanopsycho.orion> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aace193a-066b-ef8d-72a0-7489ba989d87@intel.com>

Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 07:50:23PM CET, jacob.e.keller at intel.com wrote:
>On 1/8/2020 11:05 PM, Jiri Pirko wrote:
>> Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 02:08:18AM CET, jacob.e.keller at intel.com wrote:
>>> At region creation time, drivers may optionally define
>>> a trigger_snapshot function callback. If not defined, the
>>> DEVLINK_CMD_REGION_TRIGGER_SNAPSHOT will simply report EOPNOTSUPP.
>> 
>> Similar mechanism is already implemented for health reporters. Why that
>> wouln't work for you?
>> 
>
>Mostly, I didn't feel that the necessary information (flash contents)
>really made sense as a health report. The intent is to enable diagnostic
>tools to read the contents of the flash on a device.

I see.


>
>I'm fine using the health interface but in this case features like
>recovery method, etc do not make sense at all as it would not be
>triggered in response to error conditions.

Okay. Perhaps this is a usecase to have the regions.

Anyway, this patch does like 5 things in one. Please split it in
multiple patches, each doing one thing.

Thanks!


>
>Thanks,
>Jake

  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-09 18:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-09  1:08 [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH 0/4] devlink region snapshot triggering Jacob Keller
2020-01-09  1:08 ` [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH 1/4] devlink: correct misspelling of snapshot Jacob Keller
2020-01-09  1:08 ` [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH 2/4] doc: fix typo of snapshot in documentation Jacob Keller
2020-01-09  7:01   ` Jiri Pirko
2020-01-09  1:08 ` [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH 3/4] devlink: add support for triggering snapshots from userspace Jacob Keller
2020-01-09  7:05   ` Jiri Pirko
2020-01-09 18:50     ` Jacob Keller
2020-01-09 18:58       ` Jiri Pirko [this message]
2020-01-09 19:07         ` Jacob Keller
2020-01-09 19:35         ` Jacob Keller
2020-01-09  1:08 ` [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH 4/4] devlink: add support for DEVLINK_CMD_REGION_TRIGGER_SNAPSHOT Jacob Keller
2020-01-09  7:00 ` [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH 0/4] devlink region snapshot triggering Jiri Pirko
2020-01-09 18:48   ` Jacob Keller
2020-01-09 18:59 ` Jiri Pirko

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