Firmware does not allow the operation and would return failure, causing a warning in dmesg. So check for VF and disallow it in the driver.
Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <michael.c...@broadcom.com> --- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ethtool.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ethtool.c index 0ea8466..a699ca54 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ethtool.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ethtool.c @@ -1818,6 +1818,11 @@ static int nvm_get_dir_info(struct net_device *dev, u32 *entries, u32 *length) static int bnxt_get_eeprom_len(struct net_device *dev) { + struct bnxt *bp = netdev_priv(dev); + + if (BNXT_VF(bp)) + return 0; + /* The -1 return value allows the entire 32-bit range of offsets to be * passed via the ethtool command-line utility. */ -- 1.8.3.1