On Thu, 30 Jul 2020 15:30:45 +0300 Moshe Shemesh wrote: > >>> My expectations would be that the driver must perform the lowest > >>> reset level possible that satisfies the requested functional change. > >>> IOW driver may do more, in fact it should be acceptable for the > >>> driver to always for a full HW reset (unless --live or other > >>> constraint is specified). > >> OK, but some combinations may still not be valid for specific driver > >> even if it tries lowest level possible. > > Can you give an example? > > For example take the combination of fw-live-patch and param-init. > > The fw-live-patch needs no re-initialization, while the param-init > requires driver re-initialization. > > So the only way to do that is to the one command after the other, not > really combining.
You need to read my responses more carefully. I don't have fw-live-patch in my proposal. The operation is fw-activate, --live is independent and an constraint, not an operation.