From: Shannon Nelson <snel...@pensando.io> Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2020 18:13:22 -0700
> Add support for using devlink's dev flash facility to update the > firmware on an ionic device, and add a new timeout parameter to the > devlink flash netlink message. > > For long-running flash commands, we add a timeout element to the dev > flash notify message in order for a userland utility to display a timeout > deadline to the user. This allows the userland utility to display a > count down to the user when a firmware update action is otherwise going > to go for ahile without any updates. An example use is added to the > netdevsim module. > > The ionic driver uses this timeout element in its new flash function. > The driver uses a simple model of pushing the firmware file to the NIC, > asking the NIC to unpack and install the file into the device, and then > selecting it for the next boot. If any of these steps fail, the whole > transaction is failed. A couple of the steps can take a long time, > so we use the timeout status message rather than faking it with bogus > done/total messages. > > The driver doesn't currently support doing these steps individually. > In the future we want to be able to list the FW that is installed and > selectable but we don't yet have the API to fully support that. ... Series applied to net-next.
