Firmware does not allow the operation and would return failure, causing
a warning in dmesg. So check for VF and disallow it in the driver.
Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <michael.c...@broadcom.com>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ethtool.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ethtool.c
b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ethtool.c
index 0ea8466..a699ca54 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ethtool.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ethtool.c
@@ -1818,6 +1818,11 @@ static int nvm_get_dir_info(struct net_device *dev, u32
*entries, u32 *length)
static int bnxt_get_eeprom_len(struct net_device *dev)
{
+ struct bnxt *bp = netdev_priv(dev);
+
+ if (BNXT_VF(bp))
+ return 0;
+
/* The -1 return value allows the entire 32-bit range of offsets to be
* passed via the ethtool command-line utility.
*/
--
1.8.3.1
