In case of a temporary failure the ixgbe driver can return the internal
error IXGBE_ERR_RESET_FAILED to the application. Instead, return
-EAGAIN as per the public API specification.
Fixes: cddaf87a1ecb ("lib: fix unused values")
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <[email protected]>
---
v2: added fixes and cc: stable
move change to eth_ixgbevf_dev_init from the base code
drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c
index 26b192737f..eab9e2e7e6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c
@@ -1619,7 +1619,12 @@ eth_ixgbevf_dev_init(struct rte_eth_dev *eth_dev)
*/
if ((diag != IXGBE_SUCCESS) && (diag != IXGBE_ERR_INVALID_MAC_ADDR)) {
PMD_INIT_LOG(ERR, "VF Initialization Failure: %d", diag);
- return diag;
+ /*
+ * This error code will be propagated to the app by
+ * rte_eth_dev_reset, so use a public error code rather than
+ * the internal-only IXGBE_ERR_RESET_FAILED
+ */
+ return -EAGAIN;
}
/* negotiate mailbox API version to use with the PF. */
--
2.18.0
