Older versions of VIOS servers do not send the firmware level in the VPD
buffer for the ibmvnic driver. Thus, not only the current message is mis-
leading but the firmware version in the ethtool will be NULL. Therefore,
this patch fixes the firmware string and its warning.
Fixes: 4e6759be28e4 ("ibmvnic: Feature implementation of VPD for the ibmvnic
driver")
Signed-off-by: Desnes A. Nunes do Rosario <desn...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
index b65f5f3ac034..2b3e71b63a7a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
@@ -3290,7 +3290,11 @@ static void handle_vpd_rsp(union ibmvnic_crq *crq,
*/
substr = strnstr(adapter->vpd->buff, "RM", adapter->vpd->len);
if (!substr) {
- dev_info(dev, "No FW level provided by VPD\n");
+ dev_info(dev, "Warning - No FW level has been provided in the
VPD buffer by the VIOS Server\n");
+ ptr = strncpy((char *)adapter->fw_version, "N/A",
+ 3 * sizeof(char));
+ if (!ptr)
+ dev_err(dev, "Failed to inform that firmware version is
unavailable to the adapter\n");
goto complete;
}
--
2.14.3
