netdev - Re: [patch net-next v3 0/8] expose flash update status to user

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Date:   Tue, 4 Jun 2019 08:09:09 -0700
From:   Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
To:     Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Cc:     Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, mlxsw@...lanox.com,
        Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>,
        Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@...rosoft.com>,
        David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>,
        Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>,
        Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [patch net-next v3 0/8] expose flash update status to user

On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 6:41 AM Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us> wrote:
>
> From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>
>
> When user is flashing device using devlink, he currenly does not see any
> information about what is going on, percentages, etc.
> Drivers, for example mlxsw and mlx5, have notion about the progress
> and what is happening. This patchset exposes this progress
> information to userspace.
>
> Example output for existing flash command:
> $ devlink dev flash pci/0000:01:00.0 file firmware.bin
> Preparing to flash
> Flashing 100%
> Flashing done
>
> See this console recording which shows flashing FW on a Mellanox
> Spectrum device:
> https://asciinema.org/a/247926

from api perspective it looks good to me.
Thanks!
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>