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SubjectRe: [PATCH] usb: phy: Quiet unable to find transceiver message
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@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.

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.

cheers

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balbi
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