Re: [RFC PATCH] usb: core: log more general message on malformed LANGID descriptor

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Wed Sep 24 2014 - 04:07:33 EST


On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 10:28:49PM +0000, Scot Doyle wrote:
> I'd like to change this error message:
> [ 3.325837] usb 1-4: string descriptor 0 malformed (err = -61), defaulting to 0x0409
>
> into an error message followed by a debug message:
> [ 3.324726] usb 1-4: malformed string descriptor; unknown language, defaulting to English
> [ 3.327514] usb 1-4: string descriptor 0 malformed (err = -61), defaulting to 0x0409
>
> in order to communicate more information from the log itself. Are there
> any problems with this approach? Would it be better to put all the
> information on a single line? Something else?

How about just one line, why two?

And something like "device not implementing langid specifier, defaulting
to English", but cleaned up to sound a bit better?

thanks,

greg k-h
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