[PATCH, net] ibmvnic: fix firmware version when no firmware level has been provided by the VIOS server

[Desnes Augusto Nunes do Rosário]

Hello David,

Thank you for your review and the heads up about protocol.

On 02/01/2018 05:59 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Desnes Augusto Nunes do Rosario <desnesn at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Date: Thu,  1 Feb 2018 16:04:30 -0200
> 
>> Older versions of VIOS servers do not send the firmware level in the VPD
>> buffer for the ibmvnic driver. Thus, not only the current message is mis-
>> leading but the firmware version in the ethtool will be NULL. Therefore,
>> this patch fixes the firmware string and its warning.
>>
>> Fixes: 4e6759be28e4 ("ibmvnic: Feature implementation of VPD for the ibmvnic driver")
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Desnes A. Nunes do Rosario <desnesn at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> Applied.
> 
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> Thank you.
> 

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Desnes Augusto Nunes do Rosário
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Linux Developer - IBM / Brazil
M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering - UFRN