netdev - [PATCH net-next 4/5] sfc: Downgrade EPERM messages from MCDI to debug

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Message-ID: <56743DE5.80609@solarflare.com>
Date:	Fri, 18 Dec 2015 17:09:57 +0000
From:	Bert Kenward <bkenward@...arflare.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Solarflare linux maintainers <linux-net-drivers@...arflare.com>,
	Tomas Pilar <tpilar@...arflare.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next 4/5] sfc: Downgrade EPERM messages from MCDI to debug

From: Tomáš Pilař <tpilar@...arflare.com>

When running in an unprivileged function we expect some MC commands
to fail with permission errors. To avoid log spew downgrade these to
debug only.

Signed-off-by: Bert Kenward <bkenward@...arflare.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/mcdi.c | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/mcdi.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/mcdi.c
index ab68ff6..7df183a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/mcdi.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/mcdi.c
@@ -1084,9 +1084,10 @@ void efx_mcdi_display_error(struct efx_nic *efx, unsigned cmd,
 		code = MCDI_DWORD(outbuf, ERR_CODE);
 	if (outlen >= MC_CMD_ERR_ARG_OFST + 4)
 		err_arg = MCDI_DWORD(outbuf, ERR_ARG);
-	netif_err(efx, hw, efx->net_dev,
-		  "MC command 0x%x inlen %d failed rc=%d (raw=%d) arg=%d\n",
-		  cmd, (int)inlen, rc, code, err_arg);
+	netif_printk(efx, hw, rc == -EPERM ? KERN_DEBUG : KERN_ERR,
+		     efx->net_dev,
+		     "MC command 0x%x inlen %zu failed rc=%d (raw=%d) arg=%d\n",
+		     cmd, inlen, rc, code, err_arg);
 }
 
 /* Switch to polled MCDI completions.  This can be called in various
-- 
2.4.3


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