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mlx5: shd: Gracefully avoid shared devlink creation when no usable SN is found
authorJiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>
Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:28:01 +0000 (16:28 +0100)
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Sat, 28 Mar 2026 03:42:39 +0000 (20:42 -0700)
commitb8f9410aefc15e55304788b958a796d22bcabb7e
tree7583eee81df2a7a1bf22fb76004f1e1e58bca2fe
parentd748047af1355df044faf8df0eedf0ef75f87de8
mlx5: shd: Gracefully avoid shared devlink creation when no usable SN is found

On some HW, not even fall-back "SERIALNO" is found in VPD data. Unify
the behavior with the case there are no VPD data at all and avoid
creation of shared devlink instance.

Fixes: 2a8c8a03f306 ("net/mlx5: Add a shared devlink instance for PFs on same chip")
Reported-by: Adam Young <admiyo@amperemail.onmicrosoft.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/bab5b6bc-aa42-4af1-80d1-e56bcef06bc2@amperemail.onmicrosoft.com/
Reported-by: Ben Copeland <ben.copeland@linaro.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260324151014.860376-1-ben.copeland@linaro.org/
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>
Tested-by: Ben Copeland <ben.copeland@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260325152801.236343-1-jiri@resnulli.us
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/sh_devlink.c