From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [net-next 0/8][pull request] Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates 2015-09-17 Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2015 22:27:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20150920.222711.856164019299998327.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1442535480-65222-1-git-send-email-jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, nhorman@redhat.com, sassmann@redhat.com, jogreene@redhat.com, john.ronciak@intel.com To: jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:48760 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752389AbbIUF1M (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Sep 2015 01:27:12 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1442535480-65222-1-git-send-email-jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Jeff Kirsher Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 17:17:52 -0700 > This series contains updates to i40e and i40evf. > > Shannon provides updates to i40e and i40evf to resolve an issue with the > nvmupdate utility. First renames a variable name to reduce confusion and > to differentiate it from the actual user variable. Then added the ability > to save the admin queue write back descriptor if a caller supplies a > buffer for it to be saved into. Added a new GetStatus command so that > the NVM update tool can query the current status instead of doing fake > write requests to probe for readiness. Added wait states to the NVM > update state machine to signify when waiting for an update operation to > finish, whether we are in the middle of a set of write operations, or we > are now idle but waiting. Then added a facility to run admin queue > commands through the NVM update utility in order to allow the update > tools to interact with the firmware and do special commands needed for > updates and configuration changes. Also added a facility to recover the > result of a previously run admin queue command. Pulled, thanks Jeff.