netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 00/11] nfp: implement firmware loading policy

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Message-Id: <20190910.183035.1659598063632819738.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Tue, 10 Sep 2019 18:30:35 +0200 (CEST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     simon.horman@...ronome.com
Cc:     jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        oss-drivers@...ronome.com, dirk.vandermerwe@...ronome.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 00/11] nfp: implement firmware loading
 policy

From: Simon Horman <simon.horman@...ronome.com>
Date: Mon,  9 Sep 2019 00:54:16 +0100

> Dirk says:
> 
> This series adds configuration capabilities to the firmware loading policy of
> the NFP driver.
> 
> NFP firmware loading is controlled via three HWinfo keys which can be set per
> device: 'abi_drv_reset', 'abi_drv_load_ifc' and 'app_fw_from_flash'.
> Refer to patch #11 for more detail on how these control the firmware loading.
> 
> In order to configure the full extend of FW loading policy, a new devlink
> parameter has been introduced, 'reset_dev_on_drv_probe', which controls if the
> driver should reset the device when it's probed. This, in conjunction with the
> existing 'fw_load_policy' (extended to include a 'disk' option) provides the
> means to tweak the NFP HWinfo keys as required by users.
> 
> Patches 1 and 2 adds the devlink modifications and patches 3 through 9 adds the
> support into the NFP driver. Furthermore, the last 2 patches are documentation
> only.
> 
> v2:
>   Renamed all 'reset_dev_on_drv_probe' defines the same as the devlink parameter
>   name (Jiri)

Series applied, thanks Simon.