From: David S. Miller Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2019 23:27:39 +0000 (-0800) Subject: Merge branch 'devlink-add-the-ability-to-update-device-flash' X-Git-Tag: v5.1-rc1~178^2~185 X-Git-Url: https://asedeno.scripts.mit.edu/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=eaec2efbe4dc6be84165fcbc54238d51aa7e6c30;p=linux.git Merge branch 'devlink-add-the-ability-to-update-device-flash' Jakub Kicinski says: ==================== devlink: add the ability to update device flash This series is the second step to allow trouble shooting and recovering devices in bad state without the use of netdevs as handles. We can already query FW versions over devlink, now we add the ability to update the FW. This will allow drivers to implement some from of "limp-mode" where the device can't really be used for networking and hence has no netdev, but we can interrogate it over devlink and fix the broken FW. Small but nice advantage of devlink is that it only holds the devlink instance lock during flashing, unlike ethtool which holds rtnl_lock(). ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- eaec2efbe4dc6be84165fcbc54238d51aa7e6c30