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Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 13:13:38 +0100 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl> To: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderlinux@...il.com> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Driver core: Reduce the level of request_firmware() messages On Sunday 28 February 2010, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote: > Hello Rafael, > > On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 2:13 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...k.pl> wrote: > > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...k.pl> > > > > The messages from _request_firmware() informing that firmware is > > being requested or built-in firmware is going to be used are printed > > at KERN_INFO, which produces lots of noise on systems with huge > > numbers of AMD CPUs. Reduce the level of these messages to > > KERN_DEBUG to get rid of that noise. > > > > Which firmware we are using is very useful information. Because of > huge numbers of CPUs it seems noise then better provide the > information for first cpu and for the rest of the CPUs you can show by > KERN_DEBUG. That would have been better indeed, but the problem is _request_firmware() doesn't allow us to change the level of its messages on demand. Rafael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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