From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sonny Rao Subject: [PATCH] qlge: Fix incorrect usage of module parameters and netdev msg level Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 15:50:02 -0600 Message-ID: <20101118215002.GS32203@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Milton Miller , Linux Driver , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Ron Mercer , sonnyrao@linux.vnet.ibm.com To: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" Return-path: Received: from e38.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.159]:51910 "EHLO e38.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760708Ab0KRVuL (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:50:11 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Driver appears to be mistaking the permission field with default value in the case of debug and qlge_irq_type. Driver is also passing debug as a bitmask into netif_msg_init() which wants a number of bits. Ron Mercer suggests we should change this to pass in -1 so the defaults get used instead, which makes the default much less verbose. Signed-off-by: Milton Miller Signed-off-by: Sonny Rao --- v2: Changed debug to be -1 and updated changelog drivers/net/qlge/qlge_main.c | 6 +++--- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/qlge/qlge_main.c b/drivers/net/qlge/qlge_main.c index d9a7626..66878bb 100644 --- a/drivers/net/qlge/qlge_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/qlge/qlge_main.c @@ -62,15 +62,15 @@ static const u32 default_msg = /* NETIF_MSG_PKTDATA | */ NETIF_MSG_HW | NETIF_MSG_WOL | 0; -static int debug = 0x00007fff; /* defaults above */ -module_param(debug, int, 0); +static int debug = -1; /* defaults above */ +module_param(debug, int, 0664); MODULE_PARM_DESC(debug, "Debug level (0=none,...,16=all)"); #define MSIX_IRQ 0 #define MSI_IRQ 1 #define LEG_IRQ 2 static int qlge_irq_type = MSIX_IRQ; -module_param(qlge_irq_type, int, MSIX_IRQ); +module_param(qlge_irq_type, int, 0664); MODULE_PARM_DESC(qlge_irq_type, "0 = MSI-X, 1 = MSI, 2 = Legacy."); static int qlge_mpi_coredump;