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From:   Michael Chan <michael.chan@broadcom.com>
Date:   Wed, 12 Dec 2018 09:26:58 -0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] bnxt: remove printing of hwrm message
To:     Jonathan Toppins <jtoppins@redhat.com>
Cc:     Netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
        David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
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On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 8:59 AM Jonathan Toppins <jtoppins@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>   bnxt_en 0000:19:00.0 (unregistered net_device) (uninitialized): hwrm
> req_type 0x190 seq id 0x6 error 0xffff
>
> The message above is commonly seen when a newer driver is used on
> hardware with older firmware. The issue is this message means nothing to
> anyone except Broadcom. Remove the message to not confuse users as this
> message is really not very informative.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Toppins <jtoppins@redhat.com>
> ---
>
> Notes:
>     v2:
>       include changes recommended by Michael Chan
>

Acked-by: Michael Chan <michael.chan@broadcom.com>