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From: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
To: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>, David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, mlxsw@mellanox.com,
	sthemmin@microsoft.com, saeedm@mellanox.com, leon@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch net-next 3/7] mlxfw: Propagate error messages through extack
Date: Fri, 24 May 2019 17:08:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190524170852.4fea5e77@cakuba.netronome.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190524222635.GA2284@nanopsycho.orion>

On Sat, 25 May 2019 00:26:35 +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> Fri, May 24, 2019 at 05:54:46PM CEST, jakub.kicinski@netronome.com wrote:
> >On Fri, 24 May 2019 10:11:10 +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote:  
> >> Thu, May 23, 2019 at 05:19:46PM CEST, dsahern@gmail.com wrote:  
> >> >On 5/23/19 3:45 AM, Jiri Pirko wrote:    
> >> >> @@ -57,11 +58,13 @@ static int mlxfw_fsm_state_wait(struct mlxfw_dev *mlxfw_dev, u32 fwhandle,
> >> >>  	if (fsm_state_err != MLXFW_FSM_STATE_ERR_OK) {
> >> >>  		pr_err("Firmware flash failed: %s\n",
> >> >>  		       mlxfw_fsm_state_err_str[fsm_state_err]);
> >> >> +		NL_SET_ERR_MSG_MOD(extack, "Firmware flash failed");
> >> >>  		return -EINVAL;
> >> >>  	}
> >> >>  	if (curr_fsm_state != fsm_state) {
> >> >>  		if (--times == 0) {
> >> >>  			pr_err("Timeout reached on FSM state change");
> >> >> +			NL_SET_ERR_MSG_MOD(extack, "Timeout reached on FSM state change");    
> >> >
> >> >FSM? Is the meaning obvious to users?    
> >> 
> >> It is specific to mlx drivers.  
> >
> >What does it stand for?  Isn't it just Finite State Machine?  
> 
> I believe so.

In which case it doesn't really add much, no?  I second David's request
to make the messages as easy to understand as possible.  

PSID for better or worse I have previously capitulated on, so I guess
the ship has indeed sailed there :)

$ grep -A4 psid -- Documentation/networking/devlink-info-versions.rst 
fw.psid
=======

Unique identifier of the firmware parameter set.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-25  0:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-23  9:45 [patch net-next 0/7] expose flash update status to user Jiri Pirko
2019-05-23  9:45 ` [patch net-next 1/7] mlxsw: Move firmware flash implementation to devlink Jiri Pirko
2019-05-23  9:45 ` [patch net-next 2/7] mlx5: " Jiri Pirko
2019-05-23  9:45 ` [patch net-next 3/7] mlxfw: Propagate error messages through extack Jiri Pirko
2019-05-23 15:19   ` David Ahern
2019-05-23 18:30     ` Saeed Mahameed
2019-05-24  8:11     ` Jiri Pirko
2019-05-24 15:54       ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-05-24 22:26         ` Jiri Pirko
2019-05-25  0:08           ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2019-05-27 13:33             ` Jiri Pirko
2019-05-23  9:45 ` [patch net-next 4/7] devlink: allow driver to update progress of flash update Jiri Pirko
2019-05-23 17:39   ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-05-23  9:45 ` [patch net-next 5/7] mlxfw: Introduce status_notify op and call it to notify about the status Jiri Pirko
2019-05-23  9:45 ` [patch net-next 6/7] mlxsw: Implement flash update status notifications Jiri Pirko
2019-05-23  9:45 ` [patch net-next 7/7] netdevsim: implement fake flash updating with notifications Jiri Pirko
2019-05-23 17:47   ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-05-24  8:17     ` Jiri Pirko
2019-05-23  9:47 ` [patch iproute2 1/3] header update Jiri Pirko
2019-05-23  9:47 ` [patch iproute2 2/3] devlink: implement flash update status monitoring Jiri Pirko
2019-05-23  9:47 ` [patch iproute2 3/3] devlink: implement flash " Jiri Pirko
2019-05-23 17:57   ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-05-24  8:14     ` Jiri Pirko
2019-05-23 18:37 ` [patch net-next 0/7] expose flash update status to user Saeed Mahameed
2019-05-24  8:15   ` Jiri Pirko
2019-05-24 15:04     ` David Ahern
2019-05-28 11:29   ` Jiri Pirko
2019-05-27 18:14 ` Florian Fainelli
2019-05-28  8:55   ` Jiri Pirko

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