Re: [PATCH] Remove ambiguous logging for "Unsupported brightness interface"

From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Date: Sat Jan 30 2016 - 07:20:54 EST


On Wed, 27 Jan 2016, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-01-27 at 22:14 +0000, Eric Curtin wrote:
> > Message gets logged on machines that are well supported.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Eric Curtin <ericcurtin17@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c | 1 -
> >  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
> > b/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
> > index a268a7a..4eb41aa 100644
> > --- a/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
> > +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
> > @@ -6661,7 +6661,6 @@ static void __init
> > tpacpi_detect_brightness_capabilities(void)
> >                 pr_info("detected a 8-level brightness capable
> > ThinkPad\n");
> >                 break;
> >         default:
> > -               pr_info("Unsupported brightness interface\n");
> >                 tp_features.bright_unkfw = 1;
> >                 bright_maxlvl = b - 1;
> >         }
>
> Perhaps this should be something like this instead:
> ---
>  drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c | 4 +---
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
> index a268a7a..bd12c71 100644
> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
> @@ -6653,18 +6653,16 @@ static void __init tpacpi_detect_brightness_capabilities(void)
>   switch (b) {
>   case 16:
>   bright_maxlvl = 15;
> - pr_info("detected a 16-level brightness capable ThinkPad\n");
>   break;
>   case 8:
>   case 0:
>   bright_maxlvl = 7;
> - pr_info("detected a 8-level brightness capable ThinkPad\n");
>   break;
>   default:
> - pr_info("Unsupported brightness interface\n");
>   tp_features.bright_unkfw = 1;
>   bright_maxlvl = b - 1;
>   }
> + pr_info("detected %u brightness levels\n", bright_maxlvl + 1);
>  }

This can be made pr_debug, since we're touching it...

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