From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
To: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
oss-drivers@netronome.com, mkubecek@suse.cz, andrew@lunn.ch
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/3] devlink: add flash update command
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 11:10:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190215101012.GB2343@nanopsycho> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190214214046.19182-2-jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 10:40:44PM CET, jakub.kicinski@netronome.com wrote:
>Add devlink flash update command. Advanced NICs have firmware
>stored in flash and often cryptographically secured. Updating
>that flash is handled by management firmware. Ethtool has a
>flash update command which served us well, however, it has two
>shortcomings:
> - it takes rtnl_lock unnecessarily - really flash update has
> nothing to do with networking, so using a networking device
> as a handle is suboptimal, which leads us to the second one:
> - it requires a functioning netdev - in case device enters an
> error state and can't spawn a netdev (e.g. communication
> with the device fails) there is no netdev to use as a handle
> for flashing.
>
>Devlink already has the ability to report the firmware versions,
>now with the ability to update the firmware/flash we will be
>able to recover devices in bad state.
>
>To enable updates of sub-components of the FW allow passing
>component name. This name should correspond to one of the
>versions reported in devlink info.
>
>v1: - replace target id with component name (Jiri).
>
>Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-15 10:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-14 21:40 [PATCH net-next 0/3] devlink: add the ability to update device flash Jakub Kicinski
2019-02-14 21:40 ` [PATCH net-next 1/3] devlink: add flash update command Jakub Kicinski
2019-02-15 10:10 ` Jiri Pirko [this message]
2019-02-14 21:40 ` [PATCH net-next 2/3] ethtool: add compat for flash update Jakub Kicinski
2019-02-15 8:53 ` Michal Kubecek
2019-02-15 10:17 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-02-15 15:51 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-02-15 10:12 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-02-14 21:40 ` [PATCH net-next 3/3] nfp: devlink: allow flashing the device via devlink Jakub Kicinski
2019-02-15 10:15 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-02-15 15:44 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-02-19 9:19 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-02-20 0:49 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-02-20 8:37 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-02-21 2:59 ` Florian Fainelli
2019-02-21 3:20 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-02-21 7:00 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-02-21 7:17 ` Michal Kubecek
2019-02-15 10:26 ` Michal Kubecek
2019-02-17 23:28 ` [PATCH net-next 0/3] devlink: add the ability to update device flash David Miller
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