netdev - Re: 5.4.12 bnxt_en: Unable do read adapter's DSN

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Message-ID: <CACKFLimgUxTV7Cgg5dYtWtvTsWpOK538UtLmyyxP0tTaYOzL6g@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 16 Jan 2020 14:19:07 -0800
From:   Michael Chan <michael.chan@...adcom.com>
To:     Marc Smith <msmith626@...il.com>
Cc:     Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 5.4.12 bnxt_en: Unable do read adapter's DSN

On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 2:08 PM Marc Smith <msmith626@...il.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm using the 'bnxt_en' driver with vanilla Linux 5.4.12. I have a
> Broadcom P225p 10/25 GbE adapter. I previously used this adapter with
> Linux 4.14.120 with no issues. Now with 5.4.12 I observe the following
> kernel messages during initialization:
> ...
> [    2.605878] Broadcom NetXtreme-C/E driver bnxt_en v1.10.0
> [    2.618302] bnxt_en 0000:00:03.0 (unnamed net_device)
> (uninitialized): Unable do read adapter's DSN
> [    2.622295] bnxt_en: probe of 0000:00:03.0 failed with error -95
> [    2.632808] bnxt_en 0000:00:0a.0 (unnamed net_device)
> (uninitialized): Unable do read adapter's DSN
> [    2.637043] bnxt_en: probe of 0000:00:0a.0 failed with error -95
> ...

I have received a similar report about this issue recently.  I believe
some kernels are not configured to read extended configuration space
and so the driver's call to read the DSN would fail on such a kernel.
This failure should not be considered a fatal error and the driver
should continue to load.  I will send out a driver patch to fix this
very shortly.

Thanks.