On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 12:19:13PM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > On Tue, 6 Nov 2018 20:05:00 +0000, Ido Schimmel wrote: > > From: Shalom Toledo <shal...@mellanox.com> > > > > Many drivers checking the device's firmware version during the > > initialization flow and flashing a compatible version if the current > > version is not. > > > > fw_version_check gives the ability to skip this check which allows to run > > the device with a different firmware version than required by the driver > > for testing and/or debugging purposes. > > > > Signed-off-by: Shalom Toledo <shal...@mellanox.com> > > Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <j...@mellanox.com> > > Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <ido...@mellanox.com> > > The documentation is missing, so it's hard to comment on the definition > of the parameter...
I assume you mean Documentation/networking/devlink-params.txt ? > We have a FW loading policy for NFP, too, so it'd be good to see if we > can find a common ground. If the parameter is set, then device runs with whatever firmware version was last flashed (via ethtool, for example). Otherwise, the driver will flash a version according to its policy. In mlxsw, it is a specific version. Will that work for you?
