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From: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>
Subject: Re: bnxt: card intermittently hanging and dropping link
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2018 19:09:11 +1000
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Hi Michael,

> The main issue is the TX timeout.
> .....
>
>> [ 2682.911693] bnxt_en 0000:3b:00.0 eth4: TX timeout detected, starting reset task!
>> [ 2683.782496] bnxt_en 0000:3b:00.0 eth4: Resp cmpl intr err msg: 0x51
>> [ 2683.783061] bnxt_en 0000:3b:00.0 eth4: hwrm_ring_free tx failed. rc:-1
>> [ 2684.634557] bnxt_en 0000:3b:00.0 eth4: Resp cmpl intr err msg: 0x51
>> [ 2684.635120] bnxt_en 0000:3b:00.0 eth4: hwrm_ring_free tx failed. rc:-1
>
> and it is not recovering.
>
> Please provide ethtool -i eth4 which will show the firmware version on
> the NIC.  Let's see if the firmware is too old.

driver: bnxt_en
version: 1.8.0
firmware-version: 20.6.151.0/pkg 20.06.05.11
expansion-rom-version: 
bus-info: 0000:3b:00.0
supports-statistics: yes
supports-test: yes
supports-eeprom-access: yes
supports-register-dump: no
supports-priv-flags: no

Thanks!

Regards,
Daniel