bnxt_en: replace reset with config timestamps
authorVadim Fedorenko <vfedorenko@novek.ru>
Thu, 22 Sep 2022 19:10:38 +0000 (22:10 +0300)
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Thu, 22 Sep 2022 22:37:45 +0000 (15:37 -0700)
commit8db3d514e96715c897fe793c4d5fc0fd86aca517
tree8e56ace86234b2854e2171c9fd260d4f57bfb45d
parent0140a7168f8b2732f622fa2c500f1f8be212382a
bnxt_en: replace reset with config timestamps

Any change to the hardware timestamps configuration triggers nic restart,
which breaks transmition and reception of network packets for a while.
But there is no need to fully restart the device because while configuring
hardware timestamps. The code for changing configuration runs after all
of the initialisation, when the NIC is actually up and running. This patch
changes the code that ioctl will only update configuration registers and
will not trigger carrier status change, but in case of timestamps for
all rx packetes it fallbacks to close()/open() sequnce because of
synchronization issues in the hardware. Tested on BCM57504.

Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Vadim Fedorenko <vfedorenko@novek.ru>
Reviewed-by: Michael Chan <michael.chan@broadcom.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220922191038.29921-1-vfedorenko@novek.ru
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ptp.c