From: Michael Chan <michael.c...@broadcom.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2018 15:41:29 -0400
> The recent commit to always forward the VF MAC address to the PF for
> approval may not work if the PF driver or the firmware is older. This
> will cause the VF driver to fail during probe:
>
> bnxt_en 0000:00:03.0 (unnamed net_device) (uninitialized): hwrm req_type
> 0xf seq id 0x5 error 0xffff
> bnxt_en 0000:00:03.0 (unnamed net_device) (uninitialized): VF MAC address
> 00:00:17:02:05:d0 not approved by the PF
> bnxt_en 0000:00:03.0: Unable to initialize mac address.
> bnxt_en: probe of 0000:00:03.0 failed with error -99
>
> We fix it by treating the error as fatal only if the VF MAC address is
> locally generated by the VF.
>
> Fixes: 707e7e966026 ("bnxt_en: Always forward VF MAC address to the PF.")
> Reported-by: Seth Forshee <seth.fors...@canonical.com>
> Reported-by: Siwei Liu <losewe...@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <michael.c...@broadcom.com>
> ---
> Please queue this for stable as well. Thanks.
Applied and queued up for -stable.
