Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.19 01/63] staging: r8188eu: do not spam the kernel log

From: Sasha Levin
Date: Sun Oct 16 2022 - 09:32:13 EST


On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 06:46:12AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
On Wed, Oct 12, 2022 at 08:08:58PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
On Wed, 2022-10-12 at 20:17 -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> From: Michael Straube <straube.linux@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> [ Upstream commit 9a4d0d1c21b974454926c3b832b4728679d818eb ]
>
> Drivers should not spam the kernel log if they work properly. Convert
> the functions Hal_EfuseParseIDCode88E() and _netdev_open() to use
> netdev_dbg() instead of pr_info() so that developers can still enable
> it if they want to see this information.

Why should this be backported?

I agree, Sasha please drop this from all branches.

I'll drop it, but for the record: I've been picking up patches that help
with log spam like any other regular fixes. Being on the receiving end
of spammy kernel code and making debugging issues much harder, I think
it's as important (if not more) than some other classes of fixes we pick
up.

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Thanks,
Sasha