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

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Message-ID: <20201123194814.GA2084825@us.ibm.com>
Date:   Mon, 23 Nov 2020 11:48:14 -0800
From:   Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     Lijun Pan <ljp@...ux.ibm.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        drt@...ux.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 15/15] ibmvnic: add some debugs

Jakub Kicinski [kuba@...nel.org] wrote:
> 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.

Ok.

> 
> > +	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?

It is an informational message, will change to netdev_info().

Thanks,

Sukadev