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From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kubakici@wp.pl>
Cc: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>,
	Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	Michael Chan <michael.chan@broadcom.com>,
	Bin Luo <luobin9@huawei.com>,
	Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>,
	Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>,
	Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>,
	Danielle Ratson <danieller@mellanox.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next v2 6/6] devlink: add overwrite mode to flash update
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2020 15:53:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200721135356.GB2205@nanopsycho> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200720085159.57479106@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com>

Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 05:51:59PM CEST, kubakici@wp.pl wrote:
>On Mon, 20 Jul 2020 12:09:53 +0200 Jiri Pirko wrote:
>> This looks odd. You have a single image yet you somehow divide it
>> into "program" and "config" areas. We already have infra in place to
>> take care of this. See DEVLINK_ATTR_FLASH_UPDATE_COMPONENT.
>> You should have 2 components:
>> 1) "program"
>> 2) "config"
>> 
>> Then it is up to the user what he decides to flash.
>
>99.9% of the time users want to flash "all". To achieve "don't flash
>config" with current infra users would have to flash each component 

Well you can have multiple component what would overlap:
1) "program" + "config" (default)
2) "program"
3) "config"



>one by one and then omit the one(s) which is config (guessing which 
>one that is based on the name).
>
>Wouldn't this be quite inconvenient?

I see it as an extra knob that is actually somehow provides degradation
of components.

>
>In case of MLX is PSID considered config?

Nope.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-07-21 13:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-17 18:35 [RFC PATCH net-next v2 0/6] introduce PLDM firmware update library Jacob Keller
2020-07-17 18:35 ` [RFC PATCH net-next v2 1/6] ice: Add support for unified NVM update flow capability Jacob Keller
2020-07-17 18:35 ` [RFC PATCH net-next v2 2/6] ice: Add AdminQ commands for FW update Jacob Keller
2020-07-17 18:35 ` [RFC PATCH net-next v2 3/6] ice: add flags indicating pending update of firmware module Jacob Keller
2020-07-17 18:35 ` [RFC PATCH net-next v2 4/6] Add pldmfw library for PLDM firmware update Jacob Keller
2020-07-17 18:35 ` [RFC PATCH net-next v2 5/6] ice: implement device flash update via devlink Jacob Keller
2020-07-23 23:33   ` Jacob Keller
2020-07-17 18:35 ` [RFC PATCH net-next v2 6/6] devlink: add overwrite mode to flash update Jacob Keller
2020-07-20 10:09   ` Jiri Pirko
2020-07-20 15:51     ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-07-20 18:52       ` Jacob Keller
2020-07-21 13:56         ` Jiri Pirko
2020-07-21 17:28           ` Jacob Keller
2020-07-21 13:53       ` Jiri Pirko [this message]
2020-07-21 17:04         ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-07-21 17:31           ` Jacob Keller
2020-07-22 10:51           ` Jiri Pirko
2020-07-22 15:30             ` Keller, Jacob E
2020-07-22 16:52               ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-07-22 18:21                 ` Jacob Keller
2020-07-26  7:18                   ` Jiri Pirko
2020-07-27 18:11                     ` Jacob Keller
2020-07-29 22:49                 ` Jacob Keller
2020-07-29 23:16                   ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-07-29 23:59                     ` Jacob Keller
2020-07-26  7:16               ` Jiri Pirko
2020-07-27 18:13                 ` Jacob Keller
2020-07-28 11:19                   ` Jiri Pirko
2020-07-28 16:58                     ` Jacob Keller
2020-07-28 17:09                       ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-07-28 17:43                         ` Jacob Keller
2020-07-28 22:59                         ` Jacob Keller
2020-07-17 19:58 ` [RFC PATCH net-next v2 0/6] introduce PLDM firmware update library Jakub Kicinski
2020-07-17 21:00   ` Keller, Jacob E
2020-07-17 21:08   ` Keller, Jacob E

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