From: Alexandra Winter <wintera@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Symptom: Error message "Configuring the VNIC characteristics failed"
in dmesg whenever an OSA interface on z15 is set online.
The VNIC characteristics get re-programmed when setting a L2 device
online. This follows the selected 'wanted' characteristics - with the
exception that the INVISIBLE characteristic unconditionally gets
switched off.
For devices that don't support INVISIBLE (ie. OSA), the resulting
IO failure raises a noisy error message
("Configuring the VNIC characteristics failed").
For IQD, INVISIBLE is off by default anyways.
So don't unnecessarily special-case the INVISIBLE characteristic, and
thereby suppress the misleading error message on OSA devices.
Fixes: caa1f0b10d18 ("s390/qeth: add VNICC enable/disable support")
Signed-off-by: Alexandra Winter <wintera@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c b/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c
index 15e2fd65d434..fc5d8ed3a737 100644
--- a/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c
+++ b/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c
@@ -2041,7 +2041,6 @@ static void qeth_l2_vnicc_init(struct qeth_card *card)
error |= qeth_l2_vnicc_recover_timeout(card, QETH_VNICC_LEARNING,
timeout);
chars_tmp = card->options.vnicc.wanted_chars ^ QETH_VNICC_DEFAULT;
- chars_tmp |= QETH_VNICC_BRIDGE_INVISIBLE;
chars_len = sizeof(card->options.vnicc.wanted_chars) * BITS_PER_BYTE;
for_each_set_bit(i, &chars_tmp, chars_len) {
vnicc = BIT(i);
--
2.17.1
