Messages in this thread | | | From | Gregory CLEMENT <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ARM: mvebu: kirkwood: remove error message when retrieving mac address | Date | Tue, 19 Feb 2019 16:03:51 +0100 |
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Hi Chris,
On lun., févr. 18 2019, Chris Packham <chris.packham@alliedtelesis.co.nz> wrote:
> Kirkwood has always had the ability to retrieve the local-mac-address > from the hardware (usually this was configured by the bootloader). This > is particularly useful when dealing with a legacy non-DT aware > bootloader. > > The "error" message just indicated that the board used an old bootloader > and in many cases users can't do anything about this. The message > probably should have been pr_info() to inform the user that the kernel > has been helpful but rather than than let's remove it entirely to make > the kernel less noisy. > > Signed-off-by: Chris Packham <chris.packham@alliedtelesis.co.nz>
I'm OK with this patch, however as it is not a fix, it's too late for 5.1. I will apply it on mvebu/arm for 5.2 once 5.1-rc1 will be released.
Thanks,
gregory
> --- > arch/arm/mach-mvebu/kirkwood.c | 2 -- > 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-mvebu/kirkwood.c b/arch/arm/mach-mvebu/kirkwood.c > index 0aa88105d46e..bf3ff0f580c2 100644 > --- a/arch/arm/mach-mvebu/kirkwood.c > +++ b/arch/arm/mach-mvebu/kirkwood.c > @@ -107,8 +107,6 @@ static void __init kirkwood_dt_eth_fixup(void) > clk_prepare_enable(clk); > > /* store MAC address register contents in local-mac-address */ > - pr_err(FW_INFO "%pOF: local-mac-address is not set\n", np); > - > pmac = kzalloc(sizeof(*pmac) + 6, GFP_KERNEL); > if (!pmac) > goto eth_fixup_no_mem; > -- > 2.20.1 >
-- Gregory Clement, Bootlin Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://bootlin.com
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