Re: [PATCH] staging: brcm80211: better feedback to user on ioctl errors

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On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 10:38:39AM +0200, Roland Vossen wrote:
> Messages are now logged that provide the user with a clue on what went wrong.

Nice, you just provided a way for userspace to annoy the system log
readers by flooding it with useless information. :)

No, this kind of patch is not acceptable, sorry.  Your userspace tools
should know better.  Or at the very least, make this a debugging option
in the driver, not dev_err().

thanks,

greg k-h
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