Realtek RTL8169/8168/8125 NIC families indicate VPD capability and an optional VPD EEPROM can be connected via I2C/SPI. However I haven't seen any card or system with such a VPD EEPROM yet. The missing EEPROM causes the following warning whenever e.g. lscpi -vv is executed. invalid short VPD tag 00 at offset 01 The warning confuses users, I think we should handle the situation more gentle. Therefore, if first VPD byte is read as 0x00, assume a missing optional VPD PROM as and silently set the VPD length to 0. Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/pci/vpd.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/pci/vpd.c b/drivers/pci/vpd.c index ef5165eb3..bd174705f 100644 --- a/drivers/pci/vpd.c +++ b/drivers/pci/vpd.c @@ -89,6 +89,10 @@ static size_t pci_vpd_size(struct pci_dev *dev, size_t old_size) pci_read_vpd(dev, off, 1, header) == 1) { unsigned char tag; + /* assume missing optional VPD PROM */ + if (!header[0] && !off) + return 0; + if (header[0] & PCI_VPD_LRDT) { /* Large Resource Data Type Tag */ tag = pci_vpd_lrdt_tag(header); -- 2.29.2