On Thu, 13 Apr 2023 14:12:49 -0700 Saeed Mahameed wrote: > This is a high priority and we are working on this, unfortunately for mlx5 > we don't check FW versions since we support more than 6 different devices > already, with different FW production lines. > > So we believe that this bug is very hard to solve without breaking backward > compatibility with the currently supported working FWs, the issue exists only > on very old firmwares and we will recommend a firmware upgrade to resolve this > issue. On a closer read I don't like what this patch is doing at all. I'm not sure we have precedent for "management connection" functions. This requires a larger discussion. And after looking up the patch set it went in, it seems to have been one of the hastily merged ones. I'm sending a revert.