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    nfp: look for firmware image by device serial number and PCI name · 9511f298
    Jakub Kicinski authored
    We generally look up firmware by card type, but that doesn't allow
    users who have more than one card of the same type in their system
    to select firmware per adapter.
    
    Unfortunately user space firmware helper seems fraught with
    difficulties and to be on its way out.  In particular support for
    handling firmware uevents have been dropped from systemd and most
    distributions don't enable the FW fallback by default any more.
    
    To allow users selecting firmware for a particular device look up
    firmware names by serial and pci_name().  Use the direct lookup to
    disable generating uevents when enabled in Kconfig and not print
    any warnings to logs if adapter-specific files are missing.  Users
    can place in /lib/firmware/netronome files named:
    
    pci-${pci_name}.nffw
    serial-${serial}.nffw
    
    to target a specific card.  E.g.:
    
    pci-0000:04:00.0.nffw
    pci-0000:82:00.0.nffw
    serial-00-aa-bb-11-22-33-10-ff.nffw
    
    We use the full serial number including the interface id, as it
    appears in lspci output (bytes separated by '-').
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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