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From: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
To: Michael Chan <michael.chan@broadcom.com>,
Vijay Balakrishna <vijayb@linux.microsoft.com>
Cc: Netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [bnxt] Error: Unable to read VPD
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2022 20:41:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6d6ff22c-df69-36c2-4d42-03ed7f539761@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACKFLim=ENcZMk+8UUwg87PPdu6zDC1Ld5b54Pp+_WSow9g_Og@mail.gmail.com>
On 10.01.2022 22:15, Michael Chan wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 1:02 PM Vijay Balakrishna
> <vijayb@linux.microsoft.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Since moving to 5.10 from 5.4 we are seeing
>>
>>> Jan 01 00:00:01 localhost kernel: bnxt_en 0008:01:00.0 (unnamed net_device) (uninitialized): Unable to read VPD
>>>
>>> Jan 01 00:00:01 localhost kernel: bnxt_en 0008:01:00.1 (unnamed net_device) (uninitialized): Unable to read VPD
>>
>> these appear to be harmless and introduced by
>>
>>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=a0d0fd70fed5cc4f1e2dd98b801be63b07b4d6ac
>> Does "Unable to read VPD" need to be an error or can it be a warning
>> (netdev_warn)?
>>
>
> We can change these to warnings. Thanks.
Since 5.15 it is a pci_warn() already. Supposedly "Unable to read VPD" here simply means
that the device has no (valid) VPD. Does "lspci -vv" list any VPD info?
If VPD is an optional feature, then maybe the warning should be changed to info level
and the text should be less alarming.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-11 19:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-10 21:02 Vijay Balakrishna
2022-01-10 21:15 ` Michael Chan
2022-01-11 19:41 ` Heiner Kallweit [this message]
2022-01-11 21:12 ` Vijay Balakrishna
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