Re: [PATCH] usb: phy: Quiet unable to find transceiver message

From: Alan Stern
Date: Sat Jan 25 2014 - 10:37:42 EST


On Sat, 25 Jan 2014, Josh Boyer wrote:

> commit 1ae5799ef6317 ("usb: hcd: Initialize USB phy if needed") allows
> the USB layer to initialize external PHYs if needed. However, a PHY is
> not needed in all cases. The usb_get_phy_device function will print
> an error message, "unable to find transceiver" but everything still
> functions normally.
>
> Drop the severity of this message to pr_debug.
>
> Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/usb/phy/phy.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/phy/phy.c b/drivers/usb/phy/phy.c
> index e6f61e4..c7fe880 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/phy/phy.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/phy/phy.c
> @@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ struct usb_phy *usb_get_phy_dev(struct device *dev, u8 index)
>
> phy = __usb_find_phy_dev(dev, &phy_bind_list, index);
> if (IS_ERR(phy) || !try_module_get(phy->dev->driver->owner)) {
> - pr_err("unable to find transceiver\n");
> + pr_debug("unable to find transceiver\n");
> goto err0;
> }

Wouldn't it make more sense to change this to dev_debug? As it stands,
the user has no idea which device is lacking a transceiver.

(The same is probably true for other log messages in this source file.)

Alan Stern

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