<html>
    <head>
      <base href="https://bugs.dpdk.org/">
    </head>
    <body><table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="8" class="bz_new_table">
        <tr>
          <th>Bug ID</th>
          <td><a class="bz_bug_link 
          bz_status_UNCONFIRMED "
   title="UNCONFIRMED - Calling rte_eth_dev_get_module_info() and rte_eth_dev_get_module_eeprom() for MLX ConnectX-6 spawn errors when transceiver not inserted"
   href="https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1690">1690</a>
          </td>
        </tr>

        <tr>
          <th>Summary</th>
          <td>Calling rte_eth_dev_get_module_info() and rte_eth_dev_get_module_eeprom() for MLX ConnectX-6 spawn errors when transceiver not inserted
          </td>
        </tr>

        <tr>
          <th>Product</th>
          <td>DPDK
          </td>
        </tr>

        <tr>
          <th>Version</th>
          <td>unspecified
          </td>
        </tr>

        <tr>
          <th>Hardware</th>
          <td>All
          </td>
        </tr>

        <tr>
          <th>OS</th>
          <td>Linux
          </td>
        </tr>

        <tr>
          <th>Status</th>
          <td>UNCONFIRMED
          </td>
        </tr>

        <tr>
          <th>Severity</th>
          <td>normal
          </td>
        </tr>

        <tr>
          <th>Priority</th>
          <td>Normal
          </td>
        </tr>

        <tr>
          <th>Component</th>
          <td>ethdev
          </td>
        </tr>

        <tr>
          <th>Assignee</th>
          <td>dev@dpdk.org
          </td>
        </tr>

        <tr>
          <th>Reporter</th>
          <td>yogev@cgstowernetworks.com
          </td>
        </tr>

        <tr>
          <th>Target Milestone</th>
          <td>---
          </td>
        </tr></table>
      <p>
        <div class="bz_comment_block">
          <pre class="bz_comment_text">For Mellanox 'MT2892 Family [ConnectX-6 Dx] 101d'  
Calling the dpdk-testpmd's "show port 0 module_eeprom" results in an error when
a transceiver isn't inserted.  
The error is spawned from the mlx source:
drivers/net/mlx5/linux/mlx5_ethdev_os.c  
In two places:  

```
int mlx5_get_module_info(...)
{
        ...
        ret = mlx5_ifreq(dev, SIOCETHTOOL, &ifr);
        if (ret) {
                DRV_LOG(DEBUG, "port %u ioctl(SIOCETHTOOL) failed: %s",
                        dev->data->port_id, strerror(rte_errno));
                return ret;
        }
        ...
}
```

And  

```
int mlx5_get_module_eeprom(...)
{
        ...
        ret = mlx5_ifreq(dev, SIOCETHTOOL, &ifr);
        if (ret)
                DRV_LOG(WARNING, "port %u ioctl(SIOCETHTOOL) failed: %s",
                        dev->data->port_id, strerror(rte_errno));
        ...
}
```

dpdk-testpmd shows:  

```
  testpmd> show port 0 module_eeprom 
  mlx5_net: port 0 ioctl(SIOCETHTOOL) failed: Input/output error           //
<------------ this error.
  device is removed
```

When trying to use these functions in my own application, as dpdk-testpmd does:
rte_eth_dev_get_module_info() and rte_eth_dev_get_module_eeprom() this error
log gets printed as well.  

An expected result would be to check out the return value and print these
errors if required by the caller.
For my scenario, I would like a silence fail in case there's no transceiver.  

I've tried to overcome this by asking first if a device "exists" using
rte_eth_dev_is_removed() and rte_eth_dev_is_valid_port() but they don't reflect
the transceiver state.  

A possible solution would be to print these errors in DEBUG  

Please advice,  
Thanks.
          </pre>
        </div>
      </p>


      <hr>
      <span>You are receiving this mail because:</span>

      <ul>
          <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li>
      </ul>
      <div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/EmailMessage">
        <div itemprop="action" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ViewAction">
          
          <link itemprop="url" href="https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1690">
          <meta itemprop="name" content="View bug">
        </div>
        <meta itemprop="description" content="Bugzilla bug update notification">
      </div>
    </body>
</html>