netdev - [PATCH net-next 4/6] qed: Reduce verbosity of unimplemented MFW messages

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Date:   Thu, 23 Mar 2017 15:50:18 +0200
From:   Yuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@...ium.com>
To:     <davem@...emloft.net>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
CC:     Yuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@...ium.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next 4/6] qed: Reduce verbosity of unimplemented MFW messages

Management firmware and driver are meant to be both backward and forward
compatibile with each other.

If a new mangement firmware would work with an older driver,
it's possible that driver would receive indications which are meaningless
to it. That's perfectly acceptible from the firmware part - so no need to
log such messages at default verbosity; That would only serve to confuse
users.

Signed-off-by: Yuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@...ium.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_mcp.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_mcp.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_mcp.c
index d1fcd87..ccea0ea 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_mcp.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_mcp.c
@@ -1114,7 +1114,7 @@ int qed_mcp_handle_events(struct qed_hwfn *p_hwfn,
 			qed_mcp_update_bw(p_hwfn, p_ptt);
 			break;
 		default:
-			DP_NOTICE(p_hwfn, "Unimplemented MFW message %d\n", i);
+			DP_INFO(p_hwfn, "Unimplemented MFW message %d\n", i);
 			rc = -EINVAL;
 		}
 	}
-- 
1.9.3