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From: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
To: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, Shmuel Hazan <sh@tkos.co.il>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
	Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: phy: marvell10g: add firmware load support
Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2020 22:08:18 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tv23ausd.fsf@tarshish> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ad024231-40bd-c82f-e6d0-3b1b00c93e9a@gmail.com>

Hi Florian,

On Tue, Mar 31 2020, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On 3/31/2020 10:47 AM, Baruch Siach wrote:

[snip]

>> +	ret = request_firmware(&fw_entry, fw_file, &phydev->mdio.dev);
>> +	if (ret < 0)
>> +		return ret;
>> +
>> +	/* Firmware size must be larger than header, and even */
>> +	if (fw_entry->size <= MV_FIRMWARE_HEADER_SIZE ||
>> +			(fw_entry->size % 2) != 0) {
>> +		dev_err(&phydev->mdio.dev, "firmware file invalid");
>> +		return -EINVAL;
>> +	}
>
> You need to release the firmware file here.

Will fix.

> There is also possibly another case that you are not covering here,
> which is that the firmware on disk is newer than the firmware
> *already* loaded in the PHY, this should presumably update the running
> firmware to the latest copy.

Firmware is only loaded when the PHY boot state is MV_PMA_BOOT_WAITING
(see below). The code does not attempt to update existing PHY firmware.

> Without being able to publish the firmware in linux-firmware though, all
> of this may be moot.

I can't do much about that, unfortunately.

baruch

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-01 19:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-31 17:47 [PATCH] net: phy: marvell10g: add firmware load support Baruch Siach
2020-03-31 18:03 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2020-04-01  5:01   ` Baruch Siach
2020-04-01  5:07     ` Shmuel H.
2020-04-01  5:13       ` Shmuel H.
2020-04-01  9:27         ` Baruch Siach
2020-03-31 18:16 ` Heiner Kallweit
2020-03-31 19:30   ` Florian Fainelli
2020-04-01  5:18     ` Baruch Siach
2020-04-01  5:14   ` Baruch Siach
2020-03-31 19:37 ` Florian Fainelli
2020-04-01 19:08   ` Baruch Siach [this message]
2020-04-01 19:30     ` Andrew Lunn
2020-04-01 19:35       ` Baruch Siach
2020-04-01 10:30 ` Ioana Ciornei
2020-04-01 13:03   ` Andrew Lunn
2020-04-01 13:53     ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2020-04-01 16:09     ` Ioana Ciornei

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