Re: [RFC PATCH fwctl 3/5] pds_fwctl: initial driver framework

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On 2/19/2025 12:25 AM, Leon Romanovsky wrote:

On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 02:19:03PM -0800, Nelson, Shannon wrote:
On 2/18/2025 11:51 AM, Leon Romanovsky wrote:

On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 03:48:52PM -0800, Shannon Nelson wrote:
Initial files for adding a new fwctl driver for the AMD/Pensando PDS
devices.  This sets up a simple auxiliary_bus driver that registers
with fwctl subsystem.  It expects that a pds_core device has set up
the auxiliary_device pds_core.fwctl

Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@xxxxxxx>
---
   MAINTAINERS                    |   7 ++
   drivers/fwctl/Kconfig          |  10 ++
   drivers/fwctl/Makefile         |   1 +
   drivers/fwctl/pds/Makefile     |   4 +
   drivers/fwctl/pds/main.c       | 195 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
   include/linux/pds/pds_adminq.h |  77 +++++++++++++
   include/uapi/fwctl/fwctl.h     |   1 +
   include/uapi/fwctl/pds.h       |  27 +++++
   8 files changed, 322 insertions(+)
   create mode 100644 drivers/fwctl/pds/Makefile
   create mode 100644 drivers/fwctl/pds/main.c
   create mode 100644 include/uapi/fwctl/pds.h

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+             return err;
+     }
+
+     cmd.fwctl_ident.opcode = PDS_FWCTL_CMD_IDENT;
+     cmd.fwctl_ident.version = 0;

How will you manage this version field?

Since there is only version 0 at this point, there is not much to manage.  I
wanted to explicitly show the setting to version 0, but maybe that can be
assumed by the basic struct init.

But the question is slightly different "How will you manage this version field?"

If we find we have to change the interface in a non-backward-compatable way, we'll increment the version number that we support, and watch for the version number supported by the firmware as reported in the ident struct data and interpret the data appropriately. Similarly, if the firmware sees that the host driver is at a lower version number, it will handle data in the older format.

sln







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