From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S966548Ab0B1MLN (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Feb 2010 07:11:13 -0500 Received: from ogre.sisk.pl ([217.79.144.158]:56706 "EHLO ogre.sisk.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965251Ab0B1MLM (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Feb 2010 07:11:12 -0500 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" To: Jaswinder Singh Rajput Subject: Re: [PATCH] Driver core: Reduce the level of request_firmware() messages Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 13:13:38 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.4 (Linux/2.6.33-git-rjw; KDE/4.3.5; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Greg KH , LKML , Andrew Morton , David Woodhouse References: <201002272143.22156.rjw@sisk.pl> <3f9a31f41002272043t59d18d39ga0296ce3f6602c6d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3f9a31f41002272043t59d18d39ga0296ce3f6602c6d@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201002281313.38483.rjw@sisk.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sunday 28 February 2010, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote: > Hello Rafael, > > On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 2:13 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > From: Rafael J. Wysocki > > > > The messages from _request_firmware() informing that firmware is > > being requested or built-in firmware is going to be used are printed > > at KERN_INFO, which produces lots of noise on systems with huge > > numbers of AMD CPUs. Reduce the level of these messages to > > KERN_DEBUG to get rid of that noise. > > > > Which firmware we are using is very useful information. Because of > huge numbers of CPUs it seems noise then better provide the > information for first cpu and for the rest of the CPUs you can show by > KERN_DEBUG. That would have been better indeed, but the problem is _request_firmware() doesn't allow us to change the level of its messages on demand. Rafael