Re: [PATCH net-next v2 02/16] devlink: Add reload action option to devlink reload command

[Jiri Pirko]

Wed, Oct 07, 2020 at 08:00:43AM CEST, moshe@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>Add devlink reload action to allow the user to request a specific reload
>action. The action parameter is optional, if not specified then devlink
>driver re-init action is used (backward compatible).
>Note that when required to do firmware activation some drivers may need
>to reload the driver. On the other hand some drivers may need to reset
>the firmware to reinitialize the driver entities. Therefore, the devlink
>reload command returns the actions which were actually performed.
>Reload actions supported are:
>driver_reinit: driver entities re-initialization, applying devlink-param
>               and devlink-resource values.
>fw_activate: firmware activate.
>
>command examples:
>$devlink dev reload pci/0000:82:00.0 action driver_reinit
>reload_actions_performed:
>  driver_reinit
>
>$devlink dev reload pci/0000:82:00.0 action fw_activate
>reload_actions_performed:
>  driver_reinit fw_activate
>
>Signed-off-by: Moshe Shemesh <moshe@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@xxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@xxxxxxxxxx>