What were you trying to do that didn't work?

reduce the amount of noise in our kernel logs. In particular these logs also documented in https://access.redhat.com/solutions/7046499

in our case can be seen by running lshw (as done regularly by a third party agent as well)

sudo lshw -c system 

[89300.989928] mlx5_core c9cb:00:02.0: mlx5_query_module_eeprom:437:(pid 763019): Module ID not recognized: 0x0 

What is the impact of this issue to you?

clutters the kernel logs

Please provide the package NVR for which the bug is seen:

lshw-B.02.20-1.el9.x86_64

How reproducible is this bug?:

reproducible on a x86 VM on Azure with accelerated networking enabled

Steps to reproduce

1. boot a VM on Azure with accelerated network enabled
2. sudo lshw -c system
3. sudo dmesg

Expected results

no error logs in the kernel log

Actual results

[89536.318417] mlx5_core c9cb:00:02.0: mlx5_query_module_eeprom:437:(pid 763061): Module ID not recognized: 0x0