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

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Message-Id: <20190604.142156.883212235599705133.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Tue, 04 Jun 2019 14:21:56 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     jiri@...nulli.us
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, mlxsw@...lanox.com,
        jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com, sthemmin@...rosoft.com,
        dsahern@...il.com, saeedm@...lanox.com, leon@...nel.org,
        f.fainelli@...il.com
Subject: Re: [patch net-next v3 0/8] expose flash update status to user

From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Date: Tue,  4 Jun 2019 15:40:36 +0200

> 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

Series applied, thanks.