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SubjectRe: [PATCH] usb: phy: Quiet unable to find transceiver message
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On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 10:37 AM, Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> 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
>> 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@fedoraproject.org>
>> ---
>> 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.

josh


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