From: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicin...@netronome.com> Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 13:40:43 -0800
> This series is the second step to allow trouble shooting and recovering > devices in bad state without the use of netdevs as handles. We can > already query FW versions over devlink, now we add the ability to update > the FW. This will allow drivers to implement some from of "limp-mode" > where the device can't really be used for networking and hence has no > netdev, but we can interrogate it over devlink and fix the broken FW. > > Small but nice advantage of devlink is that it only holds the devlink > instance lock during flashing, unlike ethtool which holds rtnl_lock(). Series applied, thanks Jakub. Looking at the feedback, the things requested can be done as follow-ups quite easily.
