On Thu, 17 Jan 2013, Bjørn Mork wrote: > Peter Stuge <peter@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > Alan Stern wrote: > >> > Is this useful to anyone? > >> > >> In theory it would be useful to somebody developing firmware for a USB > >> device. If only such people would test their firmwares under Linux... > > > > Some do. Maybe it's only hobbyists, but I think it may change, > > The example I posted actually originates from a device with vendor > Linux support. I am pretty sure that some firmware engineer there has > tested the device with Linux and ignored those warnings. > > > and I > > think it's very good to warn about things which are wrong. > > I agree in principle, as long as the warning is good for something. In > this case it is not. There is absolutely zilch you and I can do about > the issue, and it does not cause any problems we need to be aware of > either. > > >> > Should we just drop those warnings? > >> > >> No opinion. > > > > I think they should stay. > > OK, but how about demoting them to debug messages instead of warnings? If you want to make that change, I don't mind. Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
