This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: mdio: Demote probed message to debug print to the 5.10-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: net-mdio-demote-probed-message-to-debug-print.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 35913e1c48add5d90933cb0f024df8582b6b45b3 Author: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Jan 3 11:40:24 2022 -0800 net: mdio: Demote probed message to debug print [ Upstream commit 7590fc6f80ac2cbf23e6b42b668bbeded070850b ] On systems with large numbers of MDIO bus/muxes the message indicating that a given MDIO bus has been successfully probed is repeated for as many buses we have, which can eat up substantial boot time for no reason, demote to a debug print. Reported-by: Maxime Bizon <mbizon@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220103194024.2620-1-f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c b/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c index 2645ca35103c9..c416ab1d2b008 100644 --- a/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c +++ b/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c @@ -588,7 +588,7 @@ int __mdiobus_register(struct mii_bus *bus, struct module *owner) mdiobus_setup_mdiodev_from_board_info(bus, mdiobus_create_device); bus->state = MDIOBUS_REGISTERED; - pr_info("%s: probed\n", bus->name); + dev_dbg(&bus->dev, "probed\n"); return 0; error: