On Mon, 10 Aug 2020 10:09:20 -0700 Jacob Keller wrote: > >> But I am still missing something: fw-activate implies that it will > >> activate a new FW image stored on flash, pending activation. What if the > >> user wants to reset and reload the FW if no new FW pending ? Should we > >> add --force option to fw-activate level ? > > > > Since reload does not check today if anything changed - i.e. if reload > > is actually needed, neither should fw-activate, IMO. I'd expect the > > "--force behavior" to be the default. > > > > Yep. What about if there is HW/FW that can't initiate the fw-activate > reset unless there is a pending update? I think ice firmware might > respond to the "please reset/activate" command with a specific status > code indicating that no update was pending. > > I think the simplest solution is to just interpret this as a success. > Alternatively we could report a specific error to inform user that no > activation took place?
I'd do EOPNOTSUPP + extack.
