netdev - Re: [PATCH iwl-next] ice: Remove and readd netdev during devlink reload

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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2024 11:07:41 +0000
From: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
To: Wojciech Drewek <wojciech.drewek@...el.com>
Cc: intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	jiri@...nulli.us
Subject: Re: [PATCH iwl-next] ice: Remove and readd netdev during devlink
 reload

On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 12:18:49PM +0100, Wojciech Drewek wrote:
> Recent changes to the devlink reload (commit 9b2348e2d6c9
> ("devlink: warn about existing entities during reload-reinit"))
> force the drivers to destroy devlink ports during reinit.
> Adjust ice driver to this requirement, unregister netdvice, destroy
> devlink port. ice_init_eth() was removed and all the common code
> between probe and reload was moved to ice_load().
> 
> During devlink reload we can't take devl_lock (it's already taken)
> and in ice_probe() we have to lock it. Use devl_* variant of the API
> which does not acquire and release devl_lock. Guard ice_load()
> with devl_lock only in case of probe.
> 
> Introduce ice_debugfs_fwlog_deinit() in order to release PF's
> debugfs entries. Move ice_debugfs_exit() call to ice_module_exit().
> 
> Suggested-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...dia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Wojciech Drewek <wojciech.drewek@...el.com>

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>