On Mon, 2017-08-07 at 16:11 +0300, Kalle Valo wrote: > Luca Coelho <[email protected]> writes: > > > From: Chaya Rachel Ivgi <[email protected]> > > > > In order to test the enter/exit CT-kill flow. > > > > Signed-off-by: Chaya Rachel Ivgi <[email protected]> > > Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <[email protected]> > > The commit log doesn't explain what's CT-kill and how/where it could be > used. For example, I have no clue what this could be about.
You're right, sorry for that. I'll update the commit log and submit v2. Basically CT-kill is a thermal "RF-kill". Whenever the NIC gets too hot, we shut it down to prevent further damage. This is nothing new. What this patch is adding is a fake way to simulate the NIC getting too hot by kicking off a debugfs entry, in the same way the FW would kick it off by sending a notification to the driver. This is mostly for R&D, but it's very useful for us and I we need it for our internal tests. Not that useful for non-developers but I didn't want to carry this in internal driver to avoid unnecessary conflicts when syncing it with upstream. -- Luca.
