bnx2x: How to log the firmware version? (was: [RFC net] bnx2x: fix built-in kernel driver load failure)

[Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>]

Dear Manish,


Thank you for your answer.

Am 16.03.22 um 19:25 schrieb Manish Chopra:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>

[…]

>> Hmm, with `CONFIG_BNX2X=y` and `bnx2x.debug=0x0100000`, bringing up
>> net05 (.1) and then net04 (.0), I only see:
>>
>>       [ 3333.883697] bnx2x: [bnx2x_compare_fw_ver:2378(net04)]loaded fw f0d07 major 7 minor d rev f eng 0
> 
> I think this print is not good probably  (that's why it is default
> disabled), it’s not really the firmware driver is supposed to work
> with (it is something which was already loaded by any other PF
> somewhere or some residue from earlier loads),
Still interesting, when handling firmware files, and trying to wrap ones 
head around the different versions flying around.

> driver is always going to work with the firmware it gets from
> request_firmware(). I suggest you to enable below prints to know
> about which FW driver is going to work with. Perhaps, I will enable
> below default.
> 
>          BNX2X_DEV_INFO("Loading %s\n", fw_file_name);
> 
>          rc = request_firmware(&bp->firmware, fw_file_name, &bp->pdev->dev);
>          if (rc) {
>                  BNX2X_DEV_INFO("Trying to load older fw %s\n", fw_file_name_v15);

Indeed, after figuring out to enable `BNX2X_DEV_INFO()` by the probe 
flag 0x2 – so either `bnx2x.debug=0x2` or `ethtool -s net04 msglvl 0x2`, 
Linux logs:

     $ dmesg --level=info | grep bnx2x | tail -8
     [  242.987091] bnx2x 0000:45:00.1: fw_seq 0x0000003b
     [  242.994144] bnx2x 0000:45:00.1: drv_pulse 0x6404
     [  243.038239] bnx2x 0000:45:00.1: Loading bnx2x/bnx2x-e1h-7.13.21.0.fw
     [  243.356284] bnx2x 0000:45:00.1 net05: using MSI-X  IRQs: sp 57 
fp[0] 59 ... fp[7] 66
     [  571.774061] bnx2x 0000:45:00.0: fw_seq 0x0000003b
     [  571.781069] bnx2x 0000:45:00.0: drv_pulse 0x2149
     [  571.799963] bnx2x 0000:45:00.0: Loading bnx2x/bnx2x-e1h-7.13.21.0.fw
     [  571.811657] bnx2x 0000:45:00.0 net04: using MSI-X  IRQs: sp 46 
fp[0] 48 ... fp[7] 55
     $ dmesg --level=err | grep bnx2x
     [  571.979621] bnx2x 0000:45:00.0 net04: Warning: Unqualified SFP+ 
module detected, Port 0 from Intel Corp       part number AFBR-703SDZ-IN2

Maybe the firmware version could be added to the line with the MSI-X and 
IRQ info. Maybe also the old version on the device, which `ethtool -i 
net04` shows.

     $ ethtool -i net04 | grep firmware
     firmware-version: 7.8.16 bc 6.2.26 phy aa0.406

No idea, why ethtool does not show the loaded firmware.


Kind regards,

Paul