When reading device status, 0 means device is successfully
activated and 1 means error.
This behavior can be observed by the following steps:
1) run a Linux distro on esxi server (5.5+)
2) modify vmxnet3 Linux driver to give it an invalid
address to 'adapter->shared_pa' which is the
shared memory for guest/host communication
This will trigger device activation failure and kernel
log will have the following message:
[ 7138.403256] vmxnet3 0000:03:00.0 eth1: Failed to activate dev: error 1
So return 1 on device activation failure instead of -1;
Signed-off-by: Miao Yan <yanmiaob...@gmail.com>
---
Changes in v3:
- mention esxi version in commit message
hw/net/vmxnet3.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/hw/net/vmxnet3.c b/hw/net/vmxnet3.c
index e168285..9185408 100644
--- a/hw/net/vmxnet3.c
+++ b/hw/net/vmxnet3.c
@@ -1652,7 +1652,7 @@ static uint64_t vmxnet3_get_command_status(VMXNET3State
*s)
switch (s->last_command) {
case VMXNET3_CMD_ACTIVATE_DEV:
- ret = (s->device_active) ? 0 : -1;
+ ret = (s->device_active) ? 0 : 1;
VMW_CFPRN("Device active: %" PRIx64, ret);
break;
--
1.9.1
