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bnxt_en: Implement new driver APIs to send FW messages
The current driver APIs to send messages to the firmware allow only one
outstanding message in flight. There is only one buffer for the firmware
response for each firmware channel. To send a firmware message, all
callers must take a mutex and it is released after the firmware response
has been read. This scheme does not allow multiple firmware messages
in flight. Firmware may take a long time to respond to some messages
(e.g. NVRAM related ones) and this causes the mutex to be held for
a long time, blocking other callers.
This patchset intoduces the new driver APIs to address the above
shortcomings. The new APIs are compatible with new and old firmware.
But the new deferred firmware response mechanism will require newer
firmware in order to allow multiple outstanding firmware commands.
All callers are updated to use the new APIs.
v2: Patch 4 and patch 9 updated to fix issues reported by test robot
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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