Port is considering inactive when the related netdevice is down. There is no reason to warn about it (and confuse users) since it's automatically brought up later by the PMD.
Signed-off-by: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil at 6wind.com> --- drivers/net/mlx4/mlx4.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx4/mlx4.c b/drivers/net/mlx4/mlx4.c index 4cf2f7d..3b25492 100644 --- a/drivers/net/mlx4/mlx4.c +++ b/drivers/net/mlx4/mlx4.c @@ -4985,9 +4985,9 @@ mlx4_pci_devinit(struct rte_pci_driver *pci_drv, struct rte_pci_device *pci_dev) goto port_error; } if (port_attr.state != IBV_PORT_ACTIVE) - WARN("bad state for port %d: \"%s\" (%d)", - port, ibv_port_state_str(port_attr.state), - port_attr.state); + DEBUG("port %d is not active: \"%s\" (%d)", + port, ibv_port_state_str(port_attr.state), + port_attr.state); /* Allocate protection domain. */ pd = ibv_alloc_pd(ctx); -- 2.1.0