Re: [PATCH] sd: assign appropriate log level

From: Joe Perches
Date: Mon Oct 17 2016 - 13:15:37 EST


On Mon, 2016-10-17 at 09:51 -0700, David Singleton wrote:
> From: Shikhar Dogra <shidogra@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Reduce chatter on console for usb hotplug.
> KERN_ERR is too high severity for these messages, moving them
> to KERN_WARNING

Perhaps KERN_NOTICE is more appropriate.
That's the level for most of these sd_first_printk already.

> USB devices never have a Caching Mode page, it doesn't make
> sense to make it an error when you have tons of USB devices where
> the print is useless, and not an error.
>
> For second message, the condition is not an error. The existing
> workaround of assuming a write through cache doesn't limit
> functionality in any way.
>
> Cc: xe-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Shikhar Dogra <shidogra@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: David Singleton <davsingl@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/scsi/sd.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/sd.c b/drivers/scsi/sd.c
> index 51e5629..ab7bfe3 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/sd.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/sd.c
> @@ -2540,7 +2540,7 @@ sd_read_cache_type(struct scsi_disk *sdkp, unsigned char *buffer)
> }
> }
>
> - sd_first_printk(KERN_ERR, sdkp, "No Caching mode page found\n");
> + sd_first_printk(KERN_WARNING, sdkp, "No Caching mode page found\n");
> goto defaults;
>
> Page_found:
> @@ -2594,7 +2594,7 @@ sd_read_cache_type(struct scsi_disk *sdkp, unsigned char *buffer)
> "Assuming drive cache: write back\n");
> sdkp->WCE = 1;
> } else {s
> - sd_first_printk(KERN_ERR, sdkp,
> + sd_first_printk(KERN_WARNING, sdkp,
> "Assuming drive cache: write through\n");
> sdkp->WCE = 0;
> }
>