Comment 6 for bug 1790652

Copied from Seth's upstream mailing list posting
https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg521428.html

This is with a kernel based on 4.18.5, and it has also been seen with a
4.17-based kernel. I'm not currently aware of any working kernel
version. The driver seems to be getting an error response from the
firmware when trying to set the MAC address.

[ 2.437420] Broadcom NetXtreme-C/E driver bnxt_en v1.9.1
[ 2.449820] bnxt_en 0000:00:03.0 (unnamed net_device) (uninitialized): hwrm req_type 0xf seq id 0x5 error 0xffff
[ 2.455610] bnxt_en 0000:00:03.0 (unnamed net_device) (uninitialized): VF MAC address 00:00:17:02:05:d0 not approved by the PF
[ 2.461443] bnxt_en 0000:00:03.0: Unable to initialize mac address.
[ 2.483531] bnxt_en: probe of 0000:00:03.0 failed with error -99

Posting here in case @pgraydon-oracle has seen this.