RE: [PATCH 1/4] mei: Don't log an error when the MEI device is quirked off

From: Winkler, Tomas
Date: Tue Mar 11 2014 - 18:34:12 EST




>
> >> If an administrator wants to use MEI, they can search the logs for
> >> 'mei'. Otherwise they don't need a glaring reminder that their
> >> hardware doesn't actually support MEI.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >> drivers/misc/mei/pci-me.c | 2 +-
> >> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/drivers/misc/mei/pci-me.c b/drivers/misc/mei/pci-me.c
> >> index ddadd08..809021e 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/misc/mei/pci-me.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/misc/mei/pci-me.c
> >> @@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ static int mei_me_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const
> >> struct pci_device_id *ent)
> >>
> >> if (!mei_me_quirk_probe(pdev, ent)) {
> >> err = -ENODEV;
> >> - goto end;
> >> + return err; /* No point in logging an error. */
> >> }
> >
> >
> > I would like to have at least some info/debug message logged,
> > the issue was discovered on specific DELL machines and there is a little worry
> > that on some systems it can be false positive.
>
> mei_me_quirk_probe logs "Device doesn't have valid ME Interface\n".

Grrr, right!
ACK, though it would be simpler just to:

if (!mei_me_quirk_probe(pdev, ent))
return -ENODEV;

Even this is trivial fix I would prefer it will go through Greg's char-misc tree, as this is what I'm rebasing on.

Thanks
Tomas
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