linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] usb: core: log more general message on malformed LANGID descriptor

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Date:	Wed, 24 Sep 2014 17:28:36 +0000 (UTC)
From:	Scot Doyle <lkml14@...tdoyle.com>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
cc:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	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: [RFC PATCH] usb: core: log more general message on malformed
 LANGID descriptor

On Tue, 23 Sep 2014, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 10:28:49PM +0000, Scot Doyle wrote:
>> I'd like to change this error message:
>> [    3.325837] usb 1-4: string descriptor 0 malformed (err = -61), defaulting to 0x0409
>>
>> into an error message followed by a debug message:
>> [    3.324726] usb 1-4: malformed string descriptor; unknown language, defaulting to English
>> [    3.327514] usb 1-4: string descriptor 0 malformed (err = -61), defaulting to 0x0409
>>
>> in order to communicate more information from the log itself. Are there
>> any problems with this approach? Would it be better to put all the
>> information on a single line? Something else?
>
> How about just one line, why two?
>
> And something like "device not implementing langid specifier, defaulting
> to English", but cleaned up to sound a bit better?

That sounds good, I plan to submit this patch tomorrow unless anyone 
prefers different wording.

---
diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/message.c b/drivers/usb/core/message.c
index 0c8a7fc..5317081 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/core/message.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/message.c
@@ -770,9 +770,7 @@ static int usb_get_langid(struct usb_device *dev, unsigned char *tbuf)
 		dev->string_langid = 0x0409;
 		dev->have_langid = 1;
 		dev_err(&dev->dev,
-			"string descriptor 0 malformed (err = %d), "
-			"defaulting to 0x%04x\n",
-				err, dev->string_langid);
+			"language id specifier not provided by device, defaulting to English");
 		return 0;
 	}

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