Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 23/51] CDC-NCM: remove "connected" log message

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Jan 12 2021 - 08:12:15 EST


On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 07:55:05AM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
> From: Roland Dreier <roland@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> [ Upstream commit 59b4a8fa27f5a895582ada1ae5034af7c94a57b5 ]
>
> The cdc_ncm driver passes network connection notifications up to
> usbnet_link_change(), which is the right place for any logging.
> Remove the netdev_info() duplicating this from the driver itself.
>
> This stops devices such as my "TRENDnet USB 10/100/1G/2.5G LAN"
> (ID 20f4:e02b) adapter from spamming the kernel log with
>
> cdc_ncm 2-2:2.0 enp0s2u2c2: network connection: connected
>
> messages every 60 msec or so.
>
> Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201224032116.2453938-1-roland@xxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c | 3 ---
> 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

This is already queued up to be in the next round of stable releases, so
no need to queue it up again :)

thanks,

greg k-h