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net/mlx5e: Support the flash device ethtool callback
authorOr Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>
Tue, 18 Apr 2017 14:48:46 +0000 (17:48 +0300)
committerSaeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Thu, 22 Jun 2017 11:30:13 +0000 (14:30 +0300)
commit1f1277049e9c37becb4a5c9e8d7ab6539253af2d
tree676b3e56b4ceafd42937f3fd26717f8d1a6ef66f
parent51728eb83a1d12493e455a502a1019ca93996f27
net/mlx5e: Support the flash device ethtool callback

This callback further invokes the mlxfw module to flash the new
firmware file to the device.

As the firmware flash process takes about 20 seconds and ethtool
takes the rtnl lock during the flash_device callback, we release
the rtnl lock at the beginning of the flash process and take it
again before leaving the callback.

This way, rtnl is not held during the process. To make sure the
device does not get deleted while being flashed, we take a
reference to it before releasing rtnl lock.

Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Yotam Gigi <yotamg@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en.h
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_ethtool.c