On 07.03.2021 19:27, Krzysztof Wilczyński wrote: > Hi Heiner, > >> 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. > [...] > > True. I saw people on different forum and IRC asking for clarification > assuming their NIC broke, or that something is wrong, so this would > indeed save them some worry, nice! > > Having said that, I also saw this particular warning showing up for some > storage controllers (often some SAS cards), so a question here: would it > warrant adding a pci_dbg() with an appropriate message rather than just > returning 0? I wonder if this might be useful for someone who is trying > to troubleshoot and/or debug some issues with their device. > > What do you think? > I don't have a strong opinion here, but yes, that's something we could do. > Krzysztof >
