RE: [PATCH net v2 1/1] ice: do not abort devlink info if board identifier can't be found

["Keller, Jacob E" <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nguyen, Anthony L <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
> Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2021 3:35 PM
> To: davem@davemloft.net; kuba@kernel.org
> Cc: Keller, Jacob E <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>; netdev@vger.kernel.org; Nguyen,
> Anthony L <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>; Brelinski, TonyX
> <tonyx.brelinski@intel.com>
> Subject: [PATCH net v2 1/1] ice: do not abort devlink info if board identifier can't
> be found
> 
> From: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
> 
> The devlink dev info command reports version information about the
> device and firmware running on the board. This includes the "board.id"
> field which is supposed to represent an identifier of the board design.
> The ice driver uses the Product Board Assembly identifier for this.
> 
> In some cases, the PBA is not present in the NVM. If this happens,
> devlink dev info will fail with an error. Instead, modify the
> ice_info_pba function to just exit without filling in the context
> buffer. This will cause the board.id field to be skipped. Log a dev_dbg
> message in case someone wants to confirm why board.id is not showing up
> for them.
> 
> Fixes: e961b679fb0b ("ice: add board identifier info to devlink .info_get")
> Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
> Tested-by: Tony Brelinski <tonyx.brelinski@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
> ---

Ack! Thanks for taking up the work to split this, Tony! I really appreciate it.

(Thanks also Kuba for helping make a clean net-fix, this is definitely the better approach!)

Regards,
Jake

> v2:
> - Removed refactors - to be submitted later as separate patch through net-next
> - Changed 'PBA' to 'board identifier' in title
> 
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_devlink.c | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_devlink.c
> b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_devlink.c
> index 91b545ab8b8f..7fe6e8ea39f0 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_devlink.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_devlink.c
> @@ -42,7 +42,9 @@ static int ice_info_pba(struct ice_pf *pf, struct ice_info_ctx
> *ctx)
> 
>  	status = ice_read_pba_string(hw, (u8 *)ctx->buf, sizeof(ctx->buf));
>  	if (status)
> -		return -EIO;
> +		/* We failed to locate the PBA, so just skip this entry */
> +		dev_dbg(ice_pf_to_dev(pf), "Failed to read Product Board
> Assembly string, status %s\n",
> +			ice_stat_str(status));
> 
>  	return 0;
>  }
> --
> 2.26.2