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Subject: [bnxt] Error: Unable to read VPD
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Since moving to 5.10 from 5.4 we are seeing

> Jan 01 00:00:01 localhost kernel: bnxt_en 0008:01:00.0 (unnamed net_device) (uninitialized): Unable to read VPD
> 
> Jan 01 00:00:01 localhost kernel: bnxt_en 0008:01:00.1 (unnamed net_device) (uninitialized): Unable to read VPD

these appear to be harmless and introduced by

> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=a0d0fd70fed5cc4f1e2dd98b801be63b07b4d6ac
Does "Unable to read VPD" need to be an error or can it be a warning 
(netdev_warn)?

Thanks,
Vijay