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From: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@us.ibm.com>
To: ron.mercer@qlogic.com,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>,
	Linux Driver <Linux-Driver@qlogic.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <lin
Subject: Re: [PATCH] qlge: Fix incorrect usage of module parameters and netdev msg level
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 17:12:12 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101118231212.GU32203@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101118221713.GB14333@linux-ox1b.qlogic.org>

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 02:17:14PM -0800, Ron Mercer wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 01:50:02PM -0800, Sonny Rao wrote:
> > 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 <miltonm@bga.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> Milton/Sonny,
> Did you happen to test this to see if the log output was the same? 

Well, I haven't tried the -1 but I suspect it is much more sane than
the 15 I had before because that was excessively verbose and I always
ended up turning it down.  I'll try it out and see.

-- 
Sonny Rao, LTC OzLabs, BML team

  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-18 23:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-18 21:50 [PATCH] qlge: Fix incorrect usage of module parameters and netdev msg level Sonny Rao
2010-11-18 22:17 ` Ron Mercer
2010-11-18 23:12   ` Sonny Rao [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-11-18 10:25 Sonny Rao
2010-11-18 17:22 ` Ron Mercer
2010-11-18 19:30 ` David Miller
2010-11-22 16:29 ` David Miller

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