This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled i40e: Fix for displaying message regarding NVM version to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: i40e-fix-for-displaying-message-regarding-nvm-version.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 40feded8a247f95957a0de9abd100085fb320a2f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mateusz Palczewski <mateusz.palczewski@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2021 11:04:35 +0100 Subject: i40e: Fix for displaying message regarding NVM version From: Mateusz Palczewski <mateusz.palczewski@xxxxxxxxx> commit 40feded8a247f95957a0de9abd100085fb320a2f upstream. When loading the i40e driver, it prints a message like: 'The driver for the device detected a newer version of the NVM image v1.x than expected v1.y. Please install the most recent version of the network driver.' This is misleading as the driver is working as expected. Fix that by removing the second part of message and changing it from dev_info to dev_dbg. Fixes: 4fb29bddb57f ("i40e: The driver now prints the API version in error message") Signed-off-by: Mateusz Palczewski <mateusz.palczewski@xxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Gurucharan G <gurucharanx.g@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c @@ -15475,8 +15475,8 @@ static int i40e_probe(struct pci_dev *pd if (hw->aq.api_maj_ver == I40E_FW_API_VERSION_MAJOR && hw->aq.api_min_ver > I40E_FW_MINOR_VERSION(hw)) - dev_info(&pdev->dev, - "The driver for the device detected a newer version of the NVM image v%u.%u than expected v%u.%u. Please install the most recent version of the network driver.\n", + dev_dbg(&pdev->dev, + "The driver for the device detected a newer version of the NVM image v%u.%u than v%u.%u.\n", hw->aq.api_maj_ver, hw->aq.api_min_ver, I40E_FW_API_VERSION_MAJOR, Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mateusz.palczewski@xxxxxxxxx are queue-5.15/i40e-fix-to-not-show-opcode-msg-on-unsuccessful-vf-mac-change.patch queue-5.15/i40e-fix-for-displaying-message-regarding-nvm-version.patch