linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] firmware/psci: demote suspend-mode warning to debug level

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Date:   Tue, 25 Oct 2022 12:53:55 +0100
From:   Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>
To:     Johan Hovold <johan+linaro@...nel.org>
Cc:     Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Lorenzo Pieralisi <lpieralisi@...nel.org>,
        Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>,
        Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@...aro.org>,
        Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware/psci: demote suspend-mode warning to debug level

On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 04:34:17PM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
> On some Qualcomm platform, like SC8280XP, the attempt to set PC mode
> during boot fails with PSCI_RET_DENIED and since commit 998fcd001feb
> ("firmware/psci: Print a warning if PSCI doesn't accept PC mode") this
> is now logged at warning level:
>
> 	psci: failed to set PC mode: -3
>
> As there is nothing users can do about the firmware behaving this way,
> demote the warning to debug level.
>

As mentioned in the other thread I prefer to keep this as error as we
shouldn't mask this error and enable more/newer platforms to ignore it
when they can go and fix it. So I don't agree with this.

--
Regards,
Sudeep