We support application FW being either loaded automatically at boot from flash or (more commonly) by the driver from disk. If FW is not found on disk and nothing is preloaded users are faced with this unintuitive error:
nfp 0000:04:00.0: nfp: Failed to find PF symbol _pf0_net_bar0 We can do better. Since we rely on symbol table being present - check early if it could be correctly read out of from the device and if not print a more informative message. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicin...@netronome.com> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.hor...@netronome.com> --- drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp_net_main.c | 11 +++++++---- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp_net_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp_net_main.c index cfcbc3b9a9aa..3169400dd474 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp_net_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp_net_main.c @@ -589,10 +589,7 @@ static int nfp_net_pci_map_mem(struct nfp_pf *pf) ctrl_bar_sz, &pf->data_vnic_bar); if (IS_ERR(mem)) { nfp_err(pf->cpp, "Failed to find data vNIC memory symbol\n"); - err = PTR_ERR(mem); - if (!pf->fw_loaded && err == -ENOENT) - err = -EPROBE_DEFER; - return err; + return PTR_ERR(mem); } pf->mac_stats_mem = nfp_net_pf_map_rtsym(pf, "net.macstats", @@ -786,6 +783,12 @@ int nfp_net_pci_probe(struct nfp_pf *pf) return -EINVAL; } + if (!pf->rtbl) { + nfp_err(pf->cpp, "No %s, giving up.\n", + pf->fw_loaded ? "symbol table" : "firmware found"); + return -EPROBE_DEFER; + } + mutex_lock(&pf->lock); pf->max_data_vnics = nfp_net_pf_get_num_ports(pf); if ((int)pf->max_data_vnics < 0) { -- 2.11.0