linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.2.y-ckt 24/93] iwlwifi: pcie: lower the debug level for RSA semaphore access

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Message-Id: <1461694653-29506-25-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com>
Date:	Tue, 26 Apr 2016 11:16:24 -0700
From:	Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com
Cc:	Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@...el.com>,
	Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.2.y-ckt 24/93] iwlwifi: pcie: lower the debug level for RSA semaphore access

4.2.8-ckt9 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

---8<------------------------------------------------------------

From: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@...el.com>

commit 9fc515bc9e735c10cd327f05c20f5ef69474188d upstream.

IWL_INFO is not an error but still printed by default.
"can't access the RSA semaphore it is write protected" seems
worrisome but it is not really a problem.

Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@...el.com>
[ kamal: backport to 4.2-stable: file renamed ]
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/pcie/trans.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/pcie/trans.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/pcie/trans.c
index 444cdb9..177373d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/pcie/trans.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/pcie/trans.c
@@ -731,8 +731,8 @@ static int iwl_pcie_rsa_race_bug_wa(struct iwl_trans *trans)
 	 */
 	val = iwl_read_prph(trans, PREG_AUX_BUS_WPROT_0);
 	if (val & (BIT(1) | BIT(17))) {
-		IWL_INFO(trans,
-			 "can't access the RSA semaphore it is write protected\n");
+		IWL_DEBUG_INFO(trans,
+			       "can't access the RSA semaphore it is write protected\n");
 		return 0;
 	}
 
-- 
2.7.4