netdev - [PATCH] usbnet: silence an unnecessary warning

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Date:   Thu, 11 Jan 2018 16:01:49 +0100
From:   Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.com>
To:     davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.com>
Subject: [PATCH] usbnet: silence an unnecessary warning

That a kevent could not be scheduled is not an error.
Such handlers must be able to deal with multiple events anyway.
As the successful scheduling of a work is a debug event, make
the failure debug priority, too.

Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.com>
Reported-by: Cristian Caravena <caravena@...il.com>
---
 drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c b/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c
index d56fe32bf48d..1e0bbe23f95c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c
@@ -458,8 +458,7 @@ void usbnet_defer_kevent (struct usbnet *dev, int work)
 {
 	set_bit (work, &dev->flags);
 	if (!schedule_work (&dev->kevent)) {
-		if (net_ratelimit())
-			netdev_err(dev->net, "kevent %d may have been dropped\n", work);
+		netdev_dbg(dev->net, "kevent %d may have been dropped\n", work);
 	} else {
 		netdev_dbg(dev->net, "kevent %d scheduled\n", work);
 	}
-- 
2.13.6