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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Igor Russkikh <irusskikh@marvell.com>
Cc: <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Ariel Elior <aelior@marvell.com>,
	Michal Kalderon <mkalderon@marvell.com>,
	"Alexander Lobakin" <alobakin@marvell.com>,
	Michal Kalderon <michal.kalderon@marvell.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 net-next 04/10] qed: implement devlink info request
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 10:32:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200821103218.6d1cb211@kicinski-fedora-PC1C0HJN> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200820185204.652-5-irusskikh@marvell.com>

On Thu, 20 Aug 2020 21:51:58 +0300 Igor Russkikh wrote:
> Here we return existing fw & mfw versions, we also fetch device's
> serial number:
> 
> ~$ sudo ~/iproute2/devlink/devlink  dev info
> pci/0000:01:00.1:
>   driver qed
>   board.serial_number REE1915E44552
>   versions:
>       running:
>         fw.app 8.42.2.0
>       stored:
>         fw.mgmt 8.52.10.0

Are you not able to report the running version of the stored firmware?
The two sections are used for checking if machine needs fw-activation
or reboot (i.e. if fw.mgmt in stored section does not match fw.mgmt in
running - there is a new FW to activate).

> MFW and FW are different firmwares on device.
> Management is a firmware responsible for link configuration and
> various control plane features. Its permanent and resides in NVM.
> 
> Running FW (or fastpath FW) is an embedded microprogram implementing
> all the packet processing, offloads, etc. This FW is being loaded
> on each start by the driver from FW binary blob.
> 
> The base device specific structure (qed_dev_info) was not directly
> available to the base driver before. Thus, here we create and store
> a private copy of this structure in qed_dev root object to
> access the data.

In general looks good:

Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-21 17:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-20 18:51 [PATCH v6 net-next 00/10] qed: introduce devlink health support Igor Russkikh
2020-08-20 18:51 ` [PATCH v6 net-next 01/10] qed: move out devlink logic into a new file Igor Russkikh
2020-08-21 17:56   ` Jesse Brandeburg
2020-08-20 18:51 ` [PATCH v6 net-next 02/10] qed/qede: make devlink survive recovery Igor Russkikh
2020-08-21 18:18   ` Jesse Brandeburg
2020-08-20 18:51 ` [PATCH v6 net-next 03/10] qed: fix kconfig help entries Igor Russkikh
2020-08-20 18:51 ` [PATCH v6 net-next 04/10] qed: implement devlink info request Igor Russkikh
2020-08-21 17:32   ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2020-08-23 10:57     ` [EXT] " Igor Russkikh
2020-08-20 18:51 ` [PATCH v6 net-next 05/10] qed: health reporter init deinit seq Igor Russkikh
2020-08-21 17:34   ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-08-20 18:52 ` [PATCH v6 net-next 06/10] qed: use devlink logic to report errors Igor Russkikh
2020-08-21 17:34   ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-08-20 18:52 ` [PATCH v6 net-next 07/10] qed*: make use of devlink recovery infrastructure Igor Russkikh
2020-08-21 17:35   ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-08-20 18:52 ` [PATCH v6 net-next 08/10] qed: implement devlink dump Igor Russkikh
2020-08-20 18:52 ` [PATCH v6 net-next 09/10] qed: align adjacent indent Igor Russkikh
2020-08-21 19:40   ` Jesse Brandeburg
2020-08-20 18:52 ` [PATCH v6 net-next 10/10] qede: make driver reliable on unload after failures Igor Russkikh
2020-08-21 19:54 ` [PATCH v6 net-next 00/10] qed: introduce devlink health support Jesse Brandeburg
2020-08-21 20:37   ` [EXT] " Igor Russkikh

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