• Edwin Peer's avatar
    bnxt_en: fix ethtool_reset_flags ABI violations · 7a13240e
    Edwin Peer authored
    The ethtool ABI specifies that the reset operation should only clear
    the flags that were actually reset. Setting the flags to zero after
    a chip reset violates this because it does not include resetting the
    application processor complex. Similarly, components that are not yet
    defined are also not necessarily being reset.
    
    The fact that chip reset does not cover the AP also means that it is
    inappropriate to treat these two components exclusively of one another.
    The ABI provides a mechanism to report a failure to reset independent
    components via the returned bitmask, so it is also wrong to fail hard
    if one of a set of independent resets is not possible.
    
    It is incorrect to rely on the passed by reference flags in bnxt_reset(),
    which are being updated as components are reset. The initially requested
    value should be used instead so that hard errors do not propagate if any
    earlier components could have been reset successfully.
    
    Note, AP and chip resets are global in nature. Dedicated resets are
    thus not currently supported.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarEdwin Peer <edwin.peer@broadcom.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Chan <michael.chan@broadcom.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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