Re: [patch] e1000e, igbvf: fix default message level

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On Sat, 2012-03-10 at 11:49 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> The intent here was to enable both NETIF_MSG_DRV and NETIF_MSG_PROBE
> messages, but in the original code only the NETIF_MSG_DRV bit was set.
> 
> NETIF_MSG_DRV and NETIF_MSG_PROBE are bits 0 and 1, they are not
> supposed to be used to do a shift.  I think the confusion is because
> the msg_enable can also be controlled through ethtool which passes a bit
> number that is used to do a bit shift.
[...]

No, the ethtool interface also uses a mask.

However netif_msg_init() is commonly used to initialise the msg_enable
mask based on a module parameter that's a bit number.

Ben.

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