netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] liquidio: get rid of false alarm "Unknown cmd 27" in dmesg

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Date:   Sun, 29 Oct 2017 12:13:50 +0900 (KST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     felix.manlunas@...ium.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, raghu.vatsavayi@...ium.com,
        derek.chickles@...ium.com, satananda.burla@...ium.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] liquidio: get rid of false alarm "Unknown cmd
 27" in dmesg

From: Felix Manlunas <felix.manlunas@...ium.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 14:37:03 -0700

> Creating a macvtap interface with the liquidio VF driver as lower device
> causes this alarming message to show up in dmesg:
> 
>     liquidio_link_ctrl_cmd_completion Unknown cmd 27
> 
> That's actually a false alarm because cmd 27 is the value of the macro
> OCTNET_CMD_SET_UC_LIST which is known.  It's a control command sent from
> host to NIC firmware to set the unicast MAC address list of the macvtap
> lower device.
> 
> Make the false alarm go away by adding a case for OCTNET_CMD_SET_UC_LIST
> in liquidio_link_ctrl_cmd_completion().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Felix Manlunas <felix.manlunas@...ium.com>
> Signed-off-by: Raghu Vatsavayi <raghu.vatsavayi@...ium.com>

Applied.