Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Report these failures only once, instead of keep logging the warnings for > the same condition every time that a SDIO read or write is attempted. This > behaviour is spammy and unnecessarily pollutes the kernel log buffer. Removing error messages is not usually a good idea, it would be much better to fix the root cause. > For example, on an AM625 BeaglePlay board where accessing a SDIO WiFi chip > fails with an -110 error: > > $ dmesg | grep "sdio write\|read failed (-110)" | wc -l > 39 -110 is -ETIMEDOUT. Why is it timing out? > Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > > drivers/net/wireless/ti/wlcore/sdio.c | 8 ++++---- > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ti/wlcore/sdio.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ti/wlcore/sdio.c > index eb5482ed76ae..47ecf33a0fbe 100644 > --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ti/wlcore/sdio.c > +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ti/wlcore/sdio.c > @@ -75,8 +75,8 @@ static int __must_check wl12xx_sdio_raw_read(struct device *child, int addr, > > sdio_release_host(func); > > - if (WARN_ON(ret)) > - dev_err(child->parent, "sdio read failed (%d)\n", ret); > + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(ret)) > + dev_err_once(child->parent, "sdio read failed (%d)\n", ret); WARN_ON() feels excessive here, maybe remove that entirely? But dev_err_ratelimited() feels more approriate than printing the error just once. -- https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/list/ https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches