On Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 08:51:55PM +0300, Danielle Ratson wrote:

Some operations cannot be performed during the firmware flashing
process.

For example:

- Port must be down during the whole flashing process to avoid packet loss
  while committing reset for example.

- Writing to EEPROM interrupts the flashing process, so operations like
  ethtool dump, module reset, get and set power mode should be vetoed.

- Split port firmware flashing should be vetoed.

In order to veto those scenarios, add a flag in 'struct net_device' that
indicates when a firmware flash is taking place on the module and use it
to prevent interruptions during the process.

Signed-off-by: Danielle Ratson <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Petr Machata <petrm@nvidia.com>

Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>

    Andrew