Re: [PATCH] usb: don't hide bios bug warning

From: Yinghai Lu
Date: Sat Jul 26 2008 - 21:48:23 EST


On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 6:24 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 06:12:15PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>
>> quirk_usb_disable_handoff will wait a while if there is BIOS bug.
>> let the end user know the reason for that.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> ---
>> drivers/usb/host/pci-quirks.c | 9 ++++++---
>> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> Index: linux-2.6/drivers/usb/host/pci-quirks.c
>> ===================================================================
>> --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/usb/host/pci-quirks.c
>> +++ linux-2.6/drivers/usb/host/pci-quirks.c
>> @@ -190,7 +190,8 @@ static void __devinit quirk_usb_handoff_
>> msleep(10);
>> }
>> if (wait_time <= 0)
>> - dev_warn(&pdev->dev, "OHCI: BIOS handoff failed"
>> + dev_printk(KERN_WARNING, &pdev->dev,
>> + "OHCI: BIOS handoff failed"
>
> This is the exact same thing here, no change.
>
>> @@ -242,7 +243,8 @@ static void __devinit quirk_usb_disable_
>> switch (cap & 0xff) {
>> case 1: /* BIOS/SMM/... handoff support */
>> if ((cap & EHCI_USBLEGSUP_BIOS)) {
>> - dev_dbg(&pdev->dev, "EHCI: BIOS handoff\n");
>> + dev_printk(KERN_DEBUG, &pdev->dev,
>> + "EHCI: BIOS handoff\n");
>
> Is this what you really want to see? But you just made things noiser.
>
>> @@ -283,7 +285,8 @@ static void __devinit quirk_usb_disable_
>> /* well, possibly buggy BIOS... try to shut
>> * it down, and hope nothing goes too wrong
>> */
>> - dev_warn(&pdev->dev, "EHCI: BIOS handoff failed"
>> + dev_printk(KERN_WARNING, &pdev->dev,
>> + "EHCI: BIOS handoff failed"
>
> This is the exact same thing, no change.
>
> confused,

end user will not set CONFIG_USB_DEBUG, so that dev_warn will do nothing.

YH
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