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Date:   Wed, 18 Nov 2020 10:52:23 -0800
From:   Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>
To:     Shannon Nelson <snelson@...sando.io>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Jiri Pirko <jiri@...dia.com>,
        Michael Chan <michael.chan@...adcom.com>,
        Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...dia.com>,
        Boris Pismenny <borisp@...dia.com>,
        Bin Luo <luobin9@...wei.com>, Jakub Kicinksi <kuba@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [net-next v2 PATCH] devlink: move request_firmware out of driver



On 11/13/2020 3:48 PM, Shannon Nelson wrote:
> On 11/13/20 2:45 PM, Jacob Keller wrote:
>> -int ionic_firmware_update(struct ionic_lif *lif, const char *fw_name,
>> +int ionic_firmware_update(struct ionic_lif *lif, const struct firmware *fw,
>>   			  struct netlink_ext_ack *extack)
>>   {
>>   	struct ionic_dev *idev = &lif->ionic->idev;
>> @@ -99,24 +99,15 @@ int ionic_firmware_update(struct ionic_lif *lif, const char *fw_name,
>>   	struct ionic *ionic = lif->ionic;
>>   	union ionic_dev_cmd_comp comp;
>>   	u32 buf_sz, copy_sz, offset;
>> -	const struct firmware *fw;
>>   	struct devlink *dl;
>>   	int next_interval;
>>   	int err = 0;
>>   	u8 fw_slot;
>>   
>> -	netdev_info(netdev, "Installing firmware %s\n", fw_name);
>> -
> 
> I prefer keeping the chatty little bits like this for debug purposes, 
> but if you're going to remove it, then you should remove the matching 
> netdev_info "Firmware update completed" message a few lines before the 
> release_firmware().
> 
> Aside from that, for the ionic bits:
> Acked-by: Shannon Nelson <snelson@...sando.io>
> 
> Thanks,
> sln
> 

So the only reason I removed this is because the function no longer has
access to the fw_name string. I'll change it to just remove the %s
format string.