linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.9 037/212] qed: Disable "MFW indication via attention" SPAM every 5 minutes

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Message-Id: <20200820091604.243009894@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Thu, 20 Aug 2020 11:20:10 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Laurence Oberman <loberman@...hat.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4.9 037/212] qed: Disable "MFW indication via attention" SPAM every 5 minutes

From: Laurence Oberman <loberman@...hat.com>

[ Upstream commit 1d61e21852d3161f234b9656797669fe185c251b ]

This is likely firmware causing this but its starting to annoy customers.
Change the message level to verbose to prevent the spam.
Note that this seems to only show up with ISCSI enabled on the HBA via the
qedi driver.

Signed-off-by: Laurence Oberman <loberman@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_int.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_int.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_int.c
index fd19372db2f86..6e1d38041d0ac 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_int.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_int.c
@@ -2158,7 +2158,8 @@ static int qed_int_attentions(struct qed_hwfn *p_hwfn)
 			index, attn_bits, attn_acks, asserted_bits,
 			deasserted_bits, p_sb_attn_sw->known_attn);
 	} else if (asserted_bits == 0x100) {
-		DP_INFO(p_hwfn, "MFW indication via attention\n");
+		DP_VERBOSE(p_hwfn, NETIF_MSG_INTR,
+			   "MFW indication via attention\n");
 	} else {
 		DP_VERBOSE(p_hwfn, NETIF_MSG_INTR,
 			   "MFW indication [deassertion]\n");
-- 
2.25.1