Felipe Balbi schreef op ma 27-01-2014 om 09:30 [-0600]:
> On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 03:24:55PM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 10:37 AM, Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Sat, 25 Jan 2014, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > >
> > >> commit 1ae5799ef6317 ("usb: hcd: Initialize USB phy if needed") allows
> > >> the USB layer to initialize external PHYs if needed. However, a PHY is
> > >> not needed in all cases. The usb_get_phy_device function will print
(Minor nit: that should have been "usb_get_phy_dev".)
> > >> an error message, "unable to find transceiver" but everything still
> > >> functions normally.
> > >>
> > >> Drop the severity of this message to pr_debug.
> > >>
> > >> Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >> ---
> > >> drivers/usb/phy/phy.c | 2 +-
> > >> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >>
> > >> diff --git a/drivers/usb/phy/phy.c b/drivers/usb/phy/phy.c
> > >> index e6f61e4..c7fe880 100644
> > >> --- a/drivers/usb/phy/phy.c
> > >> +++ b/drivers/usb/phy/phy.c
> > >> @@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ struct usb_phy *usb_get_phy_dev(struct device *dev, u8 index)
> > >>
> > >> phy = __usb_find_phy_dev(dev, &phy_bind_list, index);
> > >> if (IS_ERR(phy) || !try_module_get(phy->dev->driver->owner)) {
> > >> - pr_err("unable to find transceiver\n");
> > >> + pr_debug("unable to find transceiver\n");
> > >> goto err0;
> > >> }
> > >
> > > Wouldn't it make more sense to change this to dev_debug? As it stands,
> > > the user has no idea which device is lacking a transceiver.
> >
> > Quite possibly, yes. I'm not overly familiar with the subsystem and
> > was just writing up what Felipe suggested.
> >
> > > (The same is probably true for other log messages in this source file.)
> >
> > I don't disagree, but I'd rather someone with more experience in the
> > USB subsystem do that kind of broader audit/change. I'd be happy to
> > test.
>
> yeah, I just sent a patch where I forgot to switch over to dev_dbg(), if
> you can do that for both messages and remove the out of memory message,
> I'd be glad to take your patch instead of mine.
This message cab still be seen when booting v3.14-rc1. Is a patch to
downgrade this message to dev_dbg() - from Josh, Felipe or someone else
- queued somewhere?
Paul Bolle
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