On Mon, Feb 23, 2026 at 04:12:17PM -0800, Jacob Keller wrote: > The ice driver reports a helpful status message when updating firmware > indicating what action is necessary to enable the new firmware. This is > done because some updates require power cycling or rebooting the machine > but some can be activated via devlink. > > The ice driver only supports activating firmware with the specific action > of "fw_activate" a bare "devlink dev reload" will *not* update the > firmware, and will only perform driver reinitialization. > > Update the status message to explicitly reflect that the reload must use > the fw_activate action. > > I considered modifying the text to spell out the full command, but felt > that was both overkill and something that would belong better as part of > the user space program and not hard coded into the kernel driver output. > > Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <[email protected]> > Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <[email protected]> > Reviewed-by: Przemek Kitszel <[email protected]>
Thanks Jacob, all, I agree that this text strikes a good balance. Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <[email protected]>
