linux-kernel - [PATCH] Silence "ldm_validate_partition_table(): Disk read failed" when booting with "quiet"

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Date:	Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:04:14 +0530
From:	Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@...e.de>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@....ac.uk>,
	Jiri Kosina <trivial@...nel.org>,
	linux-ntfs-dev@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	"Richard Russon (FlatCap)" <ldm@...tcap.org>,
	Klaus Hartmann <Klaus.Hartmann@...fujitsu.com>,
	Andries Brouwer <aeb@....nl>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] Silence "ldm_validate_partition_table(): Disk read failed" when booting with "quiet"

From: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@...e.de>
Subject: Silence "ldm_validate_partition_table(): Disk read failed" when booting with "quiet"

When the kernel does partition detection, on certain configurations with
external fibre channel raid systems (e.g. clariion from EMC) the read
would fail. And "ldm_validate_partition_table(): Disk read failed"
messages are printed to the console.

But the failure to read is not a critical error. Now since the message
is flagged as KERN_CRIT, it gets printed even when booting with the
"quiet" kernel parameter. Fix it by using KERN_INFO, as the failure to
read here is not really an error.

Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@...e.de>
Reported-by : Klaus Hartmann <Klaus.Hartmann@...fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@...tab.net>

---

diff --git a/fs/partitions/ldm.c b/fs/partitions/ldm.c
index b10e354..ea648b9 100644
--- a/fs/partitions/ldm.c
+++ b/fs/partitions/ldm.c
@@ -565,7 +565,7 @@ static bool ldm_validate_partition_table(struct parsed_partitions *state)
 
 	data = read_part_sector(state, 0, &sect);
 	if (!data) {
-		ldm_crit ("Disk read failed.");
+		ldm_info ("Disk read failed.");
 		return false;
 	}
 
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