bfaaba99e6
Disable showing bus-info information for port representors in switchdev
mode. This fixes a bug that caused displaying wrong netdev descriptions in
lshw tool - one port representor displayed PF branding string, and in turn
one PF displayed a "generic" description. The bug occurs when many devices
show the same bus-info in ethtool, which was the case in switchdev mode (PF
and its port representors displayed the same bus-info). The bug occurs only
if a port representor netdev appears before PF netdev in /proc/net/dev.
In the examples below:
ens6fX is PF
ens6fXvY is VF
ethX is port representor
One irrelevant column was removed from output
Before:
$ sudo lshw -c net -businfo
Bus info Device Description
=========================================
pci@0000:02:00.0 eth102 Ethernet Controller E810-XXV for SFP
pci@0000:02:00.1 ens6f1 Ethernet Controller E810-XXV for SFP
pci@0000:02:01.0 ens6f0v0 Ethernet Adaptive Virtual Function
pci@0000:02:01.1 ens6f0v1 Ethernet Adaptive Virtual Function
pci@0000:02:01.2 ens6f0v2 Ethernet Adaptive Virtual Function
pci@0000:02:00.0 ens6f0 Ethernet interface
Notice that eth102 and ens6f0 have the same bus-info and their descriptions
are swapped.
After:
$ sudo lshw -c net -businfo
Bus info Device Description
=========================================
pci@0000:02:00.0 ens6f0 Ethernet Controller E810-XXV for SFP
pci@0000:02:00.1 ens6f1 Ethernet Controller E810-XXV for SFP
pci@0000:02:01.0 ens6f0v0 Ethernet Adaptive Virtual Function
pci@0000:02:01.1 ens6f0v1 Ethernet Adaptive Virtual Function
pci@0000:02:01.2 ens6f0v2 Ethernet Adaptive Virtual Function
Fixes: 7aae80cef7ba ("ice: add port representor ethtool ops and stats")
Signed-off-by: Marcin Szycik <marcin.szycik@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Sandeep Penigalapati <sandeep.penigalapati@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
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