linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] usb: core: downgrade log severity to info when descriptor missing

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1409231905460.3223@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Tue, 23 Sep 2014 19:06:14 +0000 (UTC)
From:	Scot Doyle <lkml14@...tdoyle.com>
To:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@...ux.intel.com>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
	Daniel Mack <daniel@...aq.de>, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usb: core: downgrade log severity to info when descriptor
 missing

On Tue, 23 Sep 2014, Alan Stern wrote:
> -ENODATA doesn't mean the string was unavailable.  It means that the
> second byte of the reply was different from USB_DT_STRING, i.e., the
> reply was malformed.

Thank you for the correction!

> And down here is where you should call either dev_info() or dev_err(),
> depending on whether err is equal to -EPIPE or something else.

I hope to send it shortly.
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