netdev - Re: [PATCH net 15/15] ibmvnic: add some debugs

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Date:   Sat, 21 Nov 2020 15:45:49 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Lijun Pan <ljp@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, sukadev@...ux.ibm.com, drt@...ux.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 15/15] ibmvnic: add some debugs

On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 16:40:49 -0600 Lijun Pan wrote:
> From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@...ux.ibm.com>
> 
> We sometimes run into situations where a soft/hard reset of the adapter
> takes a long time or fails to complete. Having additional messages that
> include important adapter state info will hopefully help understand what
> is happening, reduce the guess work and minimize requests to reproduce
> problems with debug patches.

This doesn't qualify as a bug fix, please send it to net-next.

> +	netdev_err(adapter->netdev,
> +		   "[S:%d FRR:%d WFR:%d] Done processing resets\n",
> +		   adapter->state, adapter->force_reset_recovery,
> +		   adapter->wait_for_reset);

Does reset only happen as a result of an error? Should this be a
netdev_info() instead?