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Commit ed1309b2 authored by Alexandra Winter's avatar Alexandra Winter Committed by Paul Gortmaker
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s390/qeth: fix false reporting of VNIC CHAR config failure

commit 68c57bfd upstream.

Symptom: Error message "Configuring the VNIC characteristics failed"
in dmesg whenever an OSA interface on z15 is set online.

The VNIC characteristics get re-programmed when setting a L2 device
online. This follows the selected 'wanted' characteristics - with the
exception that the INVISIBLE characteristic unconditionally gets
switched off.

For devices that don't support INVISIBLE (ie. OSA), the resulting
IO failure raises a noisy error message
("Configuring the VNIC characteristics failed").
For IQD, INVISIBLE is off by default anyways.

So don't unnecessarily special-case the INVISIBLE characteristic, and
thereby suppress the misleading error message on OSA devices.

Fixes: caa1f0b1

 ("s390/qeth: add VNICC enable/disable support")
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexandra Winter <wintera@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJulian Wiedmann <jwi@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJulian Wiedmann <jwi@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
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