Re: [oss-drivers] Re: [RFC 1/3] devlink: add flash update command

2019-02-11 Thread Jiri Pirko
Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 08:25:30PM CET, jakub.kicin...@netronome.com wrote: >On Mon, 11 Feb 2019 17:45:13 +0100, Jiri Pirko wrote: >> Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 07:59:20AM CET, jakub.kicin...@netronome.com wrote: >> >Add devlink flash update command. Advanced NICs have firmware >> >stored in flash and often

Re: [oss-drivers] Re: [RFC 1/3] devlink: add flash update command

2019-02-11 Thread Jakub Kicinski
On Mon, 11 Feb 2019 17:45:13 +0100, Jiri Pirko wrote: > Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 07:59:20AM 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 f

Re: [RFC 1/3] devlink: add flash update command

2019-02-11 Thread Jiri Pirko
Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 07:59:20AM 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

[RFC 1/3] devlink: add flash update command

2019-02-10 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 -