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SubjectRe: [net-next v4 2/6] net: marvell: prestera: Add PCI interface support
Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 02:35:53PM CEST, vadym.kochan@plvision.eu wrote:
>Hi Jiri,
>
>On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 02:32:05PM +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote:
>> Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 02:22:38PM CEST, vadym.kochan@plvision.eu wrote:
>> >Add PCI interface driver for Prestera Switch ASICs family devices, which
>> >provides:
>> >
>> > - Firmware loading mechanism
>> > - Requests & events handling to/from the firmware
>> > - Access to the firmware on the bus level
>> >
>> >The firmware has to be loaded each time the device is reset. The driver
>> >is loading it from:
>> >
>> > /lib/firmware/marvell/prestera_fw-v{MAJOR}.{MINOR}.img
>> >
>> >The full firmware image version is located within the internal header
>> >and consists of 3 numbers - MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH. Additionally, driver has
>> >hard-coded minimum supported firmware version which it can work with:
>> >
>> > MAJOR - reflects the support on ABI level between driver and loaded
>> > firmware, this number should be the same for driver and loaded
>> > firmware.
>> >
>> > MINOR - this is the minimum supported version between driver and the
>> > firmware.
>> >
>> > PATCH - indicates only fixes, firmware ABI is not changed.
>> >
>> >Firmware image file name contains only MAJOR and MINOR numbers to make
>> >driver be compatible with any PATCH version.
>> >
>> >Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Mazur <oleksandr.mazur@plvision.eu>
>> >Signed-off-by: Vadym Kochan <vadym.kochan@plvision.eu>
>> >Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
>>
>> You have to remove the tag if you change the patch from last tagged
>> version...
>>
>OK, sorry, makes sense, should I re-spin with v5 or wait when the status
>is changed to 'Changes Requested' in the patchwork ?

Np. I will review this patch again.

>
>>
>> >---
>> >PATCH v4:
>> > 1) Get rid of "packed" attribute for the fw image header, it is
>> > already aligned.
>> >
>> > 2) Cleanup not needed initialization of variables which are used in
>> > readl_poll_timeout() helpers.
>> >
>> > 3) Replace #define's of prestera_{fw,ldr}_{read,write} to static funcs.
>> >
>> > 4) Use pcim_ helpers for resource allocation
>> >
>> > 5) Use devm_zalloc() for struct prestera_fw instance allocation.
>> >
>> > 6) Use module_pci_driver(prestera_pci_driver) instead of module_{init,exit}.
>> >
>> > 7) Use _MS prefix for timeout #define's.
>> >
>> > 8) Use snprintf for firmware image path generation instead of using
>> > macrosses.
>> >
>> > 9) Use memcpy_xxxio helpers for IO memory copying.
>> >
>> > 10) By default use same build type ('m' or 'y') for
>> > CONFIG_PRESTERA_PCI which is used by CONFIG_PRESTERA.
>> >
>>
>> [...]

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