netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] net: marvell: prestera: fix driver reload

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Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2024 23:58:11 +0100
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To: Elad Nachman <enachman@...vell.com>
Cc: taras.chornyi@...ision.eu, davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com,
	kuba@...nel.org, pabeni@...hat.com, kory.maincent@...tlin.com,
	thomas.petazzoni@...tlin.com, miquel.raynal@...tlin.com,
	przemyslaw.kitszel@...el.com, dkirjanov@...e.de,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] net: marvell: prestera: fix driver reload

On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 07:20:04PM +0200, Elad Nachman wrote:
> From: Elad Nachman <enachman@...vell.com>
> 
> Driver rmmod after insmod would fail because API call to reset the switch
> HW and restart the firmware CPU code loading procedure was missing in
> driver removal code handler.
> 
> Firmware reset and reload is needed as the firmware termination will make
> the firmware loader change its state machine to the firmware loading state,
> and thus will be able to load new firmware, which is done at the beginning
> of the probing of the prestera_pci module.
> 
> Without this reset, the firmware loader will stay in the wrong state,
> causing the next firmware loading phase in the probe to fail.

What is missing from this is an explanation why you need to reload the
firmware at the next re-probe. That just seems like a waste of time if
you have already loaded it once.

    Andrew