netdev - Re: [PATCH net] bnx2x: Prevent false warning for lack of FC NPIV

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Date:	Fri, 18 Mar 2016 19:23:08 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	Yuval.Mintz@...gic.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Ariel.Elior@...gic.com,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, andrew.patterson@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] bnx2x: Prevent false warning for lack of FC NPIV

From: Yuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@...gic.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 19:52:04 +0200

> Not all adapters have FC-NPIV configured. If bnx2fc is used with such an
> adapter, driver would read irrelevant data from the the nvram and log
> "FC-NPIV table with bad length..." In system logs.
> 
> Simply accept that reading '0' as the feature offset in nvram indicates
> the feature isn't there and return.
> 
> Reported-by: Andrew Patterson <andrew.patterson@....com>
> Signed-off-by: Yuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@...gic.com>

Applied.