netdev - Re: [PATCH net] qed: Don't log missing periodic stats by default

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Date:   Tue, 30 May 2017 12:38:21 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     Yuval.Mintz@...ium.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] qed: Don't log missing periodic stats by default

From: Yuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@...ium.com>
Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 11:24:49 +0300

> Current implementation lacks the logic for providing management
> firmware with RDMA-related statistics; [much] worse than that -
> it logs such events by default to system logs.
> 
> Since the statistics' gathering is done periodically, using sufficiently
> new management firmware the system logs would get filled with these
> unnecessary prints.
> 
> For now, reduce the verbosity of the log so that it would not be
> logged by default.
> 
> Fixes: 6c75424612a7 ("qed: Add support for NCSI statistics")
> Signed-off-by: Yuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@...ium.com>

Applied.