Re: [PATCH net-next 1/3] devlink: add flash update command

2019-02-15 Thread Jiri Pirko
Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 10:40:44PM CET, jakub.kicin...@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 w

[PATCH net-next 1/3] devlink: add flash update command

2019-02-14 Thread Jakub Kicinski
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 -