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Message-ID: <875y9vxey9.fsf@kernel.org>
Date:   Mon, 17 Apr 2023 08:20:14 +0300
From:   Kalle Valo <kvalo@...nel.org>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Hector Martin <marcan@...can.st>,
        Arend van Spriel <aspriel@...il.com>,
        Franky Lin <franky.lin@...adcom.com>,
        Hante Meuleman <hante.meuleman@...adcom.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        "John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
        brcm80211-dev-list.pdl@...adcom.com,
        SHA-cyfmac-dev-list@...ineon.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, asahi@...ts.linux.dev,
        stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] wifi: brcmfmac: Demote vendor-specific attach/detach messages to info

Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> writes:

> On Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 09:42:17PM +0900, Hector Martin wrote:
>
>> People are getting spooked by brcmfmac errors on their boot console.
>> There's no reason for these messages to be errors.
>> 
>> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
>> Fixes: d6a5c562214f ("wifi: brcmfmac: add support for vendor-specific firmware api")
>> Signed-off-by: Hector Martin <marcan@...can.st>
>> ---
>>  drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/bca/core.c | 4 ++--
>>  drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cyw/core.c | 4 ++--
>>  drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/wcc/core.c | 4 ++--
>>  3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>> 
>> diff --git
>> a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/bca/core.c
>> b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/bca/core.c
>> index ac3a36fa3640..c83bc435b257 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/bca/core.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/bca/core.c
>> @@ -12,13 +12,13 @@
>>  
>>  static int brcmf_bca_attach(struct brcmf_pub *drvr)
>>  {
>> -	pr_err("%s: executing\n", __func__);
>> +	pr_info("%s: executing\n", __func__);
>
> Why are these here at all?  Please just remove these entirely, you can
> get this information normally with ftrace.
>
> Or, just delete these functions, why have empty ones at all?

Yeah, deleting these sound like the best idea.

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