netdev - [PATCH net-next 2/2] nfp: print a warning when binding VFs to PF driver

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Message-Id: <20190612235903.8954-3-jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
Date:   Wed, 12 Jun 2019 16:59:03 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
To:     davem@...emloft.net
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, oss-drivers@...ronome.com,
        Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>,
        Dirk van der Merwe <dirk.vandermerwe@...ronome.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next 2/2] nfp: print a warning when binding VFs to PF driver

Users sometimes mistakenly try to manually bind the PF driver
to the VFs, print a warning message in that case.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
Reviewed-by: Dirk van der Merwe <dirk.vandermerwe@...ronome.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp_main.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp_main.c
index 948d1a4b4643..60e57f08de80 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp_main.c
@@ -596,6 +596,10 @@ static int nfp_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
 	struct nfp_pf *pf;
 	int err;
 
+	if (pdev->vendor == PCI_VENDOR_ID_NETRONOME &&
+	    pdev->device == PCI_DEVICE_ID_NETRONOME_NFP6000_VF)
+		dev_warn(&pdev->dev, "Binding NFP VF device to the NFP PF driver, the VF driver is called 'nfp_netvf'\n");
+
 	err = pci_enable_device(pdev);
 	if (err < 0)
 		return err;
-- 
2.21.0