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Jakub Kicinski says: ==================== nfp: ethtool flash updates Dirk says: This series adds the ability to update the control FW with ethtool. It should be noted that the locking scheme here is to release the RTNL lock before the flashing operation and to take it again afterwards to ensure consistent state from the core code point of view. In this time, we take a reference to the device to prevent the device being freed while its being flashed. This provides protection for the device being flashed while at the same time not holding up any networking related functions which would otherwise be locked out due to RTNL being held. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.