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@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>