Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] selftests: net: devlink_port_split.py: skip test if no suitable device available

From: Jiri Pirko <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2023 19:24:48 +0100

Wed, Mar 08, 2023 at 03:37:41PM CET, [email-masked] wrote:
>On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 7:41 PM Jiri Pirko <[email-masked]> wrote:
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>> Wed, Mar 08, 2023 at 11:21:57AM CET, [email-masked] wrote:
>> >On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 5:31 PM Jiri Pirko <[email-masked]> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Tue, Mar 07, 2023 at 04:00:30PM CET, [email-masked] wrote:
>> >> >The `devlink -j port show` command output may not contain the "flavour"
>> >> >key, an example from s390x LPAR with Ubuntu 22.10 (5.19.0-37-generic),
>> >> >iproute2-5.15.0:
>> >> >  {"port":{"pci/0001:00:00.0/1":{"type":"eth","netdev":"ens301"},
>> >> >           "pci/0001:00:00.0/2":{"type":"eth","netdev":"ens301d1"},
>> >> >           "pci/0002:00:00.0/1":{"type":"eth","netdev":"ens317"},
>> >> >           "pci/0002:00:00.0/2":{"type":"eth","netdev":"ens317d1"}}}
>> >>
>> >> As Jakub wrote, this is odd. Could you debug if kernel sends the flavour
>> >> attr and if not why? Also, could you try with most recent kernel?
>> >
>> >I did a quick check on another s390x LPAR instance which is running
>> >with Ubuntu 23.04 (6.1.0-16-generic) iproute2-6.1.0, there is still no
>> >"flavour" attribute.
>> >$ devlink port show
>> >pci/0001:00:00.0/1: type eth netdev ens301
>> >pci/0001:00:00.0/2: type eth netdev ens301d1
>> >pci/0002:00:00.0/1: type eth netdev ens317
>> >pci/0002:00:00.0/2: type eth netdev ens317d1
>> >
>> >The behaviour didn't change with iproute2 built from source [1]
>>
>> Could you paste output of "devlink dev info"?
>> Looks like something might be wrong in the kernel devlink/driver code.
>>
>The `devlink dev info` output is empty. The following output is from
>that Ubuntu 23.04 s390x LPAR, run as root:
># devlink dev show
>pci/0001:00:00.0
>pci/0002:00:00.0
># devlink dev show pci/0001:00:00.0
>pci/0001:00:00.0
># devlink dev info
># devlink dev info pci/0001:00:00.0

Interesting, could you try ethtool -i to get the driver name?

>kernel answers: Operation not supported
>
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